US academics rally to union standard
As lecturers in the UK prepare for the UCU鈥檚 marking boycott, US campuses are experiencing a surge of unionisation
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色盒直播 Scholarly Web - 10 April 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Graduates will be paying well into their fifties
Under new system, average repayments will double, IFS finds
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There鈥檚 still no such thing as a higher education market
Years after Thatcher, says Simon Marginson, commerce is marginal to the sector. True competition would destroy its essence
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Beyond naked power
Vice-chancellors and those who select them might learn from the successes 鈥 and notable failures 鈥 of politics
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Revolutionary road to higher standards in Ukraine
Nation鈥檚 universities to face QAA-style scrutiny under new regime
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A Philosophy of Walking, by Fr茅d茅ric Gros
Laurence Coupe admires scholarly insights of a kind the REF could never hope to measure
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Improving English channels
A course from the UK can鈥檛 simply be transplanted overseas even if the language used is the same, says Rebecca Hughes
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A-level changes criticised by scientific community
Scientists have reacted angrily to changes in A-level content announced by Michael Gove.
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Toni Pearce re-elected NUS president
Toni Pearce has been re-elected as the president of the National Union of Students in a landslide victory
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Boris: scientists in UK have 鈥榗ertain fastidiousness about money鈥
Commercialising research can do 鈥榝ar more鈥 for humanity than Nobel Prizes, says Mayor of London
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Video: 2014 Globalization of Higher Education conference
Hillary Clinton, Martin Bean, Naledi Pandor, Arne Duncan and others on the future of higher education
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NUS blasts David Willetts over changes to disabled students鈥 support
David Willetts is 鈥渁rrogant and out of touch鈥 in seeking 鈥渦nfair鈥 cuts to disabled students鈥 funding, according to the National Union of Students.
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STEM majors growing in US, suggests research
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Race discrimination in universities still a problem, reports survey
Nearly 60 per cent of black and minority ethnic higher education staff and students questioned for a survey feel they have been discriminated against