The week in higher education
? Carl Lygo, head of for-profit BPP University College, is no stranger to spats with those who have expressed concern at the rising influence of the free market in the higher education sector. He...
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From Where I Sit - Regional influence
In the past decade, Turkey has expanded its trade relations and adopted a flexible visa regime, allowing the movement of people on a scale hitherto unprecedented. This and efforts to integrate...
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Odds and quads
This hepatic trocar - a late 19th-century surgical instrument for the treatment of deep-seated liver abscesses - forms part of the collection at what is now the London School of Hygiene and Tropical...
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Appointments
Conde Nast College of Fashion and DesignKate ChealThe new senior lecturer in e-learning at the soon-to-be-opened Conde Nast College of Fashion and Design said she hoped to create a technological...
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Leader: Price is up but game's unchanged
More consumer pressure is to be expected with higher fees, but it must not negatively affect university standards
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Research Intelligence - Cold shoulder for Ireland's pure science?
Researchers fear basic science is being sidelined by impact-driven funding body. Paul Jump reports
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Carnesky's Tarot Drome
Marisa Carnesky’s new theatrical homage to the carnivalesque is a divinely divinatory affair, Roberta Mock discovers
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The ma?ana project
Chile’s education minister says reform is coming at last to its costly, largely privatised academy - but at a ‘slower pace’. Will it satisfy those who joined widespread protests calling for...
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Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
Deborah Rogers is moved by a feminist scholar’s meditation on the body, medicine and mortality
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Copycat criminality
Christopher Bigsby on plagiarism in the cut-and-paste era
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30 August 2012
Price-tag projections - What do deeply invested US students tell us about our high-fees future?
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Go to university? It's not worth it
One in two people believe a university education is not worth ?9,000 a year, a poll has found.
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Inside Higher Ed: Sodom, Gomorrah…Yale?
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Unions left 'in the dark' over outsource plans
Senior management at a university have been accused of keeping staff "in the dark" about plans to outsource some support services.
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糖心Vlog Office 'to strip' London Met of highly trusted status
London Metropolitan University is to lose its licence to teach foreign students, it has been reported, becoming the first UK university to be stripped of its Highly Trusted Sponsor status by the UK...