A transformative activity
In education as in nature, feedback should lead to change, says David Boud - and courses must be reshaped to allow it
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'One strike and you're out' sends a damaging message to the world
The UKBA's revocation of London Met's licence to accept non-EU students is detrimental to our global reputation, says Eric Thomas
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News in brief
United StatesPremature litigationA federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit issued by a US college against the Obama administration's "contraception mandate". District judge Ellen Segal Huvelle rejected...
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode GrantsValues are the amounts requested. Awarded amounts may differ.• Award winner: Alasdair Nisbet• Institution: Moredun Research...
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Overseas students should not count towards net migration, say MPs
A committee of MPs has called on the government to exclude overseas students from figures on net migration, warning that current policy risks "undermining a world class export market".
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'No need for alarm' - private provider speaks out
In an exclusive conversation with our veteran reporter Keith Ponting (30), the head of Poppleton City's for-profit College of Hedge Fund Studies, Mike Sartorious, has spoken frankly about the growth...
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International amnesty the least it could do
I work in a voluntary capacity with international students in Bristol. I am also engaged in documenting the history of foreign students in the UK since 1960.The current situation at London...
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Shelf delusion
Sarah E. Thomas, Bodley's librarian, understandably mounts a defence of a great library in "Brickbats don't stack up" (Letters, 30 August), her reply to my letter of 23 August ("Shelf harm"). However...
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This corrosion spreads
Terran Lane struck a chord with me, irrespective of the obvious differences between the US and UK higher education systems ("I'd have to be mad to leave here, they said - and they were right",...
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One for all
I am glad that Søren Holm thinks my book Bioethics: All That Matters is an accessible and readable introduction (Books, 9 August), but it is unfair of him to "ghettoise" it as being relevant only to...
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Debased coinage
I have always read with interest Felipe Fernández-Armesto's regular contributions to Times Higher Education but was dismayed at his recent cover story ("Reassuringly expensive", 30 August). How could...
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Research intelligence - Lab results: repeat as necessary
PLoS One backs a validation initiative that will duplicate experiments. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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US changes dose to treat public health malaise
Revised curricula will emphasise leadership and time spent away from the lab. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• How has the London Met visa ban played abroad? In short, terribly. "5,000 Pakistani students in UK face deportation in 60 days", screamed a Daily News headline on 31 August (the story mistakenly...