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...
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Leader: Education is our stock in trade
Fear of losing students to the for-profit sector is driving some institutions to try beating private providers at their own game
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From Where I Sit - Invention of wholesome tradition
What do academics eat when they meet to talk about eating? There's no single answer.At the first academic conference in food studies I attended, held at Lancaster University, the food was awful. For...
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Odds and quads
The wooden box contains the hands of David Low (1891-1963), the political cartoonist, cast in wax by Madame Tussauds in London.In 1933, when the waxwork was made, Britain's political cartoonists were...
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Appointments
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityJason PowellManchester Metropolitan University's newly appointed professor of community practice and social justice said he felt "genuine excitement and delight"...
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Neural code-breaker
Despite being the father of modern computing, Alan Turing’s greatest impact on contemporary science may stem from his insights into altogether more complex hardware, argues Ray Dolan: the human brain
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Hashtag recruitment and the social network's global reach
A US study downgrades the importance of agents. Elizabeth Gibney and Jack Grove report
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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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Freud and Marx: when they met, it was murder
TV detective shows express a great deal about the nature of society and the human psyche, argues Gary Day
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Quantity and quality
Removing the cap on student numbers does not imply a collapse in standards, argues Steven Schwartz - just look at Australia
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Slides and roundabouts
Sally Feldman on the pros and cons of a consultative management style
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6 September 2012
Go gonzo - Cast off the conventions of scholarly writing
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Market 'has not changed university hierarchy', says report
Introducing tuition fees of up to ?9,000 will not change the hierarchy of British universities because applicants generally pick an institution based on its prestige and history, a new study suggests.
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Smells like techno spirit for new intake
They have never used an airline ticket, or had cause to consult a set of bound encyclopaedias, and regard point-and-shoot cameras as "soooooo last millennium".
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London Met takes legal action over visa licence
London Metropolitan University is to take legal action to challenge the revocation of its licence to admit international students, saying it has a duty to the higher education sector to challenge the...