City University wrongly connected with London Met crisis
A translation error by Chinese news agencies has dragged another higher education institution into the London Metropolitan University visa controversy.
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Grading Clout?
By Alexandra Tilsley, for Inside Higher Ed
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UEL opens doors to London Met students
The University of East London has set up a hotline for London Metropolitan University students, in a bid to attract those facing deportation in the wake of the visa scandal.
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UK sector will take hit from London Met visa scandal, senior figures warn
The decision to strip London Metropolitan University of its licence to recruit overseas students has implications “for the whole UK sector”, according to the vice-president of Universities UK.
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All he is saying is give peace (and peace studies) a chance
Veteran 'journo-academic' calls for more jaw-jaw and less war-war. Matthew Reisz reports
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Voluble radical gives old and new Puritans a tongue-lashing
Camille Paglia talks to Matthew Reisz about the US academy's prejudices and what the secular and the religious fail to understand about art
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News in brief
United StatesUnoriginal sinner stands downA prominent US journalist who admitted copying parts of an article from a rival publication has resigned from his position on a university's governing board...
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The revenues look good, but are the customs sound?
A US Senate report damned the for-profit sector. John Morgan asks if it has lessons for the UK
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode GrantsValues are the amounts requested. Awarded amounts may differ.? Award winner: David Longbottom? Institution: Moredun...
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Leave the thinking to us
Fellow humans, pay attention: algorithms are reshaping research from the inside out and we have barely noticed, warns David Beer
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Institutions shy of recruitment goals, but delays may mask true demand
Some universities remain up to 600 students short of the number they need to recruit, amid suggestions that other institutions could be causing the shortfalls by "hanging on to" applicants who missed...
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Students' tales of the unexpected
What is a deadline to the legally dead, spooks and spymasters? Jack Grove on extraordinary excuses
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Publishers' surpluses should further scholarship, say academics
Only a fifth of humanities and social science academics regard it as acceptable for academic publishers to make a profit that is not reinvested in their disciplines.
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In the wider view, colleges sparkle and sputter
Further education colleges are doing better than expected in attracting students from areas with low rates of higher education participation, but they also have higher-than-predicted dropout rates...
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University of Glasgow tight-lipped over ethics inquiry
The University of Glasgow has declined to publish the findings of its investigation into suspected research misconduct by a former professor of immunopharmacology.