Lower fees or lose students, Welsh told
Core-and-margin model could cut places at most higher-priced universities. David Matthews writes

Core-and-margin model could cut places at most higher-priced universities. David Matthews writes
The days when international students flooded into the UK to study at its world-renowned universities may not be over, but the dynamics are rapidly changing.According to statistics published last week...
Students who are aware that their work will be checked by plagiarism-detection software are just as likely to cheat as those who are not, a study suggests.

Design subjects will be hit hardest by the closure of 16 programmes. David Matthews reports
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David has rebutted a scathing attack on its standards by a private college that used to teach its degrees.
The University College London students' union is pressing ahead with a motion of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant, despite being warned by the university that the move could have a "...
Job losses expected across all faculties as London Metropolitan bids to save £7m. Jack Grove writes
Brain-scanning equipment has been shut down and research projects have stalled at laboratories across the country because of a global helium shortage.

Christopher Belshaw considers some right-leaning directions on how to save the environment

Vanessa Williamson extols a clarion call for US citizens to press for more accountable governance
Malcolm Bull's latest work is not a book about Nietzsche but one with Nietzsche; if it had had a subtitle, "Nietzschean Variations" might have been a good choice. For this is exactly what the book...
To most people outside Germany, that country's long-lasting division after 1945 has been seen as a series of dramatic crises, essentially concerned with the divided and encircled city of Berlin....
Japanese notions of mental health differ from ours but everyone suffers in recession, finds David Healy
Most of us with fond memories of what we read as children or young adolescents will feel some trepidation as the comic becomes the object of academic study, and be aghast at the prospect of Korky the...
Philippe van Parijs' book treats a subject that is largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Native speakers of English tend to accept the phenomenon of English as a global lingua franca (ELF...