Online university courses for the masses fail to materialise
In five years, Moocs go from dream of universal education to limited service for higher-end customers
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Writtle fined £250K over shortfall on promised outreach spending
Essex institution becomes second institution to be hit by Office for Students access penalty
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Piecemeal Australian reforms ‘could cost more than they save’
Lowering of student loan repayment threshold to recoup an extra A$20 million (£11.3 million) but cost A$19 million
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Brexit, xenophobia and foreign students: combating ‘public paranoia’ over immigration
People are about 15 per cent more likely to favour capping the number of international students when primed to think about them “crowding out” domestic students
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Australia: graduate employment and employer satisfaction rise
But graduates from more affluent backgrounds fare better, survey finds
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Alumni oppose Australian university’s name-change proposal
Petition opposing Charles Sturt University’s plan attracts more than 5,000 signatures
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Letters – 10 January 2019
Civic role vital to winning long-term security In his leading article “A defining moment” (3 January), John Gill starts with a question: what are universities for? He then suggests with some...
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Welcome advances for universities
Universities may feel held to unachievable standards, but removing barriers for all manner of talented people will make institutions better and stronger
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PhDs without tears: how academics can help ease students’ minds
With many doctoral candidates unhappy and reporting mental health problems, Emma Pierson suggests ways supervisors could reduce pressures
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, by Robert Plomin
Danny Dorling learns about the extent to which our DNA dictates how we lead our lives
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When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, by Jason Brennan
Lisa Mckenzie finds a challenging but essential piece of reading in an age of failing political systems and distrustful citizens
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Books interview: Diana Holmes
The professor of French on what led to her interest in ‘middlebrow’ literature, and how ethically serious books can still be page-turners
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University admissions: which system is the fairest?
Standardised test scores, interviews, entrance exams, choosing the top percentage of applicants: all are used in university admissions. Ellie Bothwell asks which methods provide the most honest...
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Sultan of Swing: The Life of David Butler, by Michael Crick
Ivor Gaber enjoys a biography of an Oxford don who became the UK’s first on-screen pollster
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Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt, by C. W. Anderson
‘More objective’ news reporting has not necessarily yielded better politics, finds Suzanne Franks