Margin won't widen too much next year, Willetts suggests
Universities and science minister looks to avoid giant leap in student places open to competition in 2013. John Morgan writes

Universities and science minister looks to avoid giant leap in student places open to competition in 2013. John Morgan writes
University reputation is the most important factor for academics deciding whether to take jobs in another country - although the small size of European houses is also a consideration for US scholars.

European funder puts faith in 'the cunning of reason'. Paul Jump reports from Brussels
The British Council's Jo Beall tells John Morgan how it can smooth the path to 'transnational education'
The average master's thesis does not rework the 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet by legendary US hip hop group Public Enemy into a modern version about discrimination against Arabs.But for Yassin...

The fifth biennial Sodexo-Times Higher Education University Lifestyle Survey is the last to quiz students under the lower tuition fees regime - and it reveals some telling views on the changing...
Twenty years on, post-1992s have proved beyond doubt they are worthy of the university moniker, argues Michael Driscoll

Ruth Deech argues that any attempt by Offa to shape the make-up of the student body is wrong-headed and could fall foul of the law

An immigrant artist's wanderlust propelled him to Britain, where his work was compared to Hogarth's, notes Emma Barker

Reconstructing livesNational War Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, 9 March-24 February 2013"We have now four miles of beds - and not eighteen inches apart," Florence Nightingale reported from the...
BathThe Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts from the American Museum's Print CollectionAlthough he was a doctor, Dallas Pratt (1914-94) was deeply troubled by vivisection and committed to animal...

Our Head of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Professor Gordon Lapping, has reacted angrily to insinuations that the BA course P3197 run by his department is a Mickey Mouse degree.Lapping...
To truly satisfy students, the academy must push them to go for the burn intellectually, not mollycoddle them

Paul Jump on the Birmingham Fellows programme drawing 50 rising stars into the university's orbit
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