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Non-EU scholars struggling with the UK’s visa policy

Academics describe the complex, arbitrary bureaucracy, emotional turmoil and career limbo wrought by Britain’s policies

2 January 2014

The outsiders - Non-EU scholars in the UK tell of life interrupted

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 2 January 2014

Measured, but found wanting?

David Willetts’ finely balanced aims for higher education are too often belied by the impact of his government’s policies

News in brief - 2 January 2014

United StatesMajority interestApollo Global, a subsidiary of Apollo Education Group, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Australian online learning company Open Colleges Australia. The US for-...

Campus round-up - 2 January 2014

Source: ReutersTidal treasuresThe recent storms that have battered Scotland’s coast may have revealed new archaeological sites, say scholars. The University of St Andrews is working with Historic...

Odds and quads - 2 January 2014

These pictures are from the archive of the lesbian photographer, writer and performance artist Tessa Boffin (1960-93), now held by the University for the Creative Arts Farnham

News in brief - 2 January 2014

Big Data InstituteUCL pledges to retain open accessUniversity College London says its partnership with the huge publishing and information company Elsevier on a new Big Data Institute will not affect...

Grant winners - 2 January 2014

Leverhulme TrustPhilip Leverhulme PrizesThese awards recognise early career researchers whose work has already had a significant international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally...

Stand-alone technology

Buckminster Fuller may well have sought beautiful solutions, but that view is more in line with technology than science (“Both sides of the equation”, 12 December 2013).Working “solutions” such as...

Travesty in the UUK

As Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, so eloquently put it on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? recently: if Universities UK had replaced the word “gender” with “race”, it would never have even...

Admission not impossible

My recent article on conducting field research in Rwanda (“The price of admission”, 28 November) generated two critical responses in these pages – an article by Erin Jessee (“Subtle as foxes for prey...

Legal allies in student David v Goliath battles

As a barrister, I occasionally represent clients who elicit little public sympathy. The “cab rank” rule requires barristers to accept a case even if they disapprove of the client or cause. Yet when I...

The year in higher education quotes 2013

Christmas is over and winter’s grip will tighten in the grey weeks ahead. The only crumb of consolation offered by the New Year is the chance to take stock of the past 12 months and to learn some...

Students’ unions hit back at group monitoring campus extremism

Student Rights’ agenda questioned by LSE, Birkbeck, Goldsmiths unions