Reactionary Robbins
It is easy at an anniversary to lapse into hagiography and 鈥淭he dambuster鈥 (24聽October) is guilty of this. While the Robbins report was an聽important document, its contribution to the expansion and...
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Still too easy to slip on the welcome mat
Various articles in last week鈥檚 Times Higher Education (including 鈥淏ad Indian signs, but applications hold up despite crackdown鈥, News, 31 October) covered UK international recruitment and the degree...
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The week in higher education - 7 November 2013
As our readers know, we strive for nothing less than 100 per cent accuracy. Thus it was no surprise that Times Higher Education was mentioned on 30聽October in the House of Commons, with the implicit...
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Hepi takes leaf out of banking ledger for regulatory model
Report calls for overarching body to fill gaps in national 鈥榝ramework鈥
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Hefce: state students outperform private peers
Preliminary findings of major study revealed
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Leicester and Pearson target global hot spots
Pair aim to offer English language support in war-torn areas
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Opposition mounts to Oz plans for student loan sell-off
Privatisation of debt dubbed a 鈥榮illy idea鈥 by critics
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UK sector still 鈥榯hin鈥 on Islamic finance teaching
Despite government optimism over UK鈥檚 future role, university provision remains limited, forum hears
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Engineering recruitment back on track
2013-14 figures assuage fears of course closures
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US academy declares growing passion for cricket
Sport鈥檚 on-campus growth reflects rising number of overseas students in country
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Continental drift
David Willetts, in the recently published pamphlet Robbins Revisited: Bigger and Better Higher Education (Social Market聽Foundation), makes three references to Europe. That puts him ahead of an...
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Hope for convicts via fashion outreach
Students work with female prisoners on The Beauty鈥檚 Inside project
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Jeremy Black, Avril Goodwin, Stephen Halliday, A.鈥塛. Purdue and June Purvis...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour, by Carol Mavor
Philip Hoare floats away on a poetic enquiry into the extraordinary nature of what surrounds us
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, by Lila Abu-Lughod
The convictions of those involved in efforts to 鈥榬escue鈥 women from religion will be unsettled by this work, says Madawi Al-Rasheed