Overseas students 鈥榳orth 10 times the cost鈥 to UK, says report
New in-depth look at the price of hosting EU and non-EU students shows benefits far outweigh cost to taxpayer
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As international students learn, all of UK earns
A precise breakdown of foreign learners鈥 contributions to all areas and sectors of British life could help finally move the group out of the net migration count
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What are you reading? 鈥 11 January 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The OfS is off to an inauspicious start to its term
The Office for Students came into being on 1 January with a mere press release, without even a website. Does this bode well for its organisational performance? Sir Michael Barber, its chairman,...
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Points for polish
The feature 鈥淎ll present and correct?鈥 (30 November 2017), about who deserves authorship credit, seems very one-sided; it does not consider how senior scholars might not be recognised (although I...
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Market shocks
If it were not so sad, it would be amusing to learn that one of the principal designers of the current market regime for English universities appears to be surprised at the report that there is an...
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Open combat
Alex Holcombe and Bj枚rn Brembs argue that if German institutions win their open-access battle with Elsevier, they will have lost the larger war (鈥淥pen access in Germany: the best DEAL is no deal鈥,...
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The UK must do a better job of predicting future student numbers
The Office for Budget Responsibility鈥檚 methodology is of incredibly low quality, says Nick Hillman
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We need blind marking in the REF, too
Bias in assessing submissions is inevitable and damaging. Anonymisation is the least bad solution, says Graham Farrell