Inside Higher Ed: When Not to Share
By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed

By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed
Ministers have written to Universities UK to urge the sector to waive the fees of Syrian students who have been impacted by the country鈥檚 civil war.

The University of Central Lancashire has appointed Gerry Kelleher to become its vice-chancellor when it moves to a new corporate-style group structure later this year.
A writer on human behaviour has urged universities to encourage herd behaviour in their attempt to attract students rather than deploying rational argument.

聽Podcast Powered By PodbeanOn 4 March 2013 Times Higher Education published its annual World Reputation Rankings. Phil Baty, 色盒直播 rankings editor, talks about the methodology, the findings, and the...
Universities and schools should collaborate more on classroom techniques to drive up standards in teaching, according to a senior Labour peer.
The United Arab Emirates is now 鈥渄eeply inimical鈥 to university values, according to a lecturer from the London School of Economics and Political Science who was barred from entering the country.
Two planned strikes over compulsory redundancies and performance management at the University of Birmingham have been called off.

The vice-chancellor of Staffordshire University has been announced as the new chair of the Million+ group of post-1992 universities.
The number of visas issued to overseas students has fallen by a fifth although applications for university student visas have increased by 3 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Office...

Not only do medieval travellers鈥 tales provide students with a compelling account of history rooted in personal experience, they also promote cross-cultural understanding in the present day, argues...

Mary Evans discusses moral panic and girls鈥 sexualisation
AustraliaIndian pipeline running dryThe number of Indian students starting at Australian universities has dropped by almost a quarter, according to government body Australian Education International...

Fitting imageWhen Will Brooker, head of the film and television department at Kingston University, visited a comic shop recently, he 鈥渇elt very alienated by the way female characters are all pin-ups...

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