Chinese demographics pose risk to UK market share
British Council study says single-child policy will harm recruiting efforts. John Gill reports
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Northern Ireland's on track at last, says minister
Northern Ireland's universities are overcoming their historic problem with "reluctant leavers" - local students forced to leave the province for study elsewhere in the UK because there are not enough...
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US research fraud poll sparks alarm
Failure to act on high rate of scientific misconduct casts doubt on self-regulation, writes John Gill
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Overseas briefing
AustraliaR&D spending shoots up 25%Spending on research at Australian universities has rocketed in recent years. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal that total expenditure on...
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Wealth-making is all about location, location, location
Study says geography trumps expertise as key to university profit-generation, Hannah Fearn writes
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Study reveals huge shifts in top awards in law
Dramatic changes in the proportion of higher classification degrees awarded by some university law departments have been highlighted in a new study.The poll by Norman Baird, an education consultant...
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Plenty of data, but little insight
UK universities claimed to be suffering through lack of institutional research. John Gill reports
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News in brief
Energy Technologies InstituteEPSRC loses out on fundingMPs have criticised the Government for making the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council divert funding from its research programme...
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Sterling support for a greener tomorrow
'Living' multipartner programme to tackle climate change nets £1bn in funding. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Group efforts in learning's delivery room
Aid 'labouring students' to bring knowledge to life, urges Leeds Met pro v-c. Rebecca Attwood reports
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The level-headed superhero
Increasingly bitter and complex campus disputes need sane, tactful ombudsmen to solve them, says G.R. Evans
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The Star Wars solution to climate change that will crash back to earth
Strategies to deal with global warming must embrace all disciplines and approaches, not merely the technological, says Mike Hulme
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The divine is in the detail
Clumsy questions and dodgy data bedevil claims that high IQ leads to atheism, says Denis Alexander. A closer look offers a different picture
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Blind faith in metrics is 'unfounded'
Warning about 'subjectivity' of data raises concerns about the REF's use of indices, writes Zoe Corbyn
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An explosive finale to a hammer-and-drill duet
It would drive any lecturer to distraction - the constant noise of drilling and hammering interrupting a key and complex lecture to a hundred attentive students.After months of similar problems - and...