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...
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Unison set to open strike ballot over 1% pay offer
The higher education sector's second biggest union is to ballot for strike action over the 1 per cent pay offer from universities.
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Large rise in English students going to Scottish universities
Scottish universities have seen an increase of more than 26 per cent in the number of English students accepting places, according to the latest admissions data.
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Things fell apart but centre holds hope for Zimbabwe's students
Refugee scholars support beleaguered university via virtual learning hub. Matthew Reisz writes
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News in brief
United StatesSelf-examination's all-clearA US university has told a state senate panel that an internal audit has cleared it of grade-fixing allegations. Portia Shields, interim president of...
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There's gold in them there hills of online learning
Altruism takes a back seat as US elite consolidate to profit from open courses. Jon Marcus reports
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Canada told to show more of itself to the world
Canada should double the number of overseas students it attracts over the next 10 years as part of an internationalisation drive, a report by the Advisory Panel on Canada's International Education...
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode GrantsValues are the amounts requested. Awarded amounts may differ.? Award winner: Jonathan Lee? Institution: University of...
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How to be a political player
With Adrian Smith leaving BIS, former Whitehall insider David Bell considers the qualities his replacement will need
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I'd have to be mad to leave here, they said - and they were right
Surprise gave way to empathy when Terran Lane gave up a tenured post, full of anger and sorrow at the erosion of an institution he loved
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Spirited exhortation
Christmas can come early if universities tap the wisdom of the emeriti, argues Angela Thody (with help from Charles Dickens)
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English standards being set below recommended levels
Nearly two in three UK universities are setting English language requirements below the recommended level for undergraduate students from outside the European Union, according to a Times Higher...
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Researchers got talent, but negative factors usher them to the exit door
Academic performance is not a predictor of whether researchers remain in the academy, a study has concluded.