Foreign academics ‘in debt’ after paying thousands in UK visa fees
Big hikes in visa, right to remain fees bring ‘under the radar’ issue to fore and prompt post-Brexit worries for EU staff
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Beware ‘Streisand effect’ on contract cheating, UK’s QAA hears
Hollywood legend’s backfiring legal action offers lessons for universities on essay mills, says researcher
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Teacher shortage looms in Australia as entry requirements rise
Australian schools to run short of teachers as funding cuts and ‘bad media’ bite into education enrolments
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London Business School dean: more to an MBA than earning power
François Ortalo-Magné says executive programmes help students ‘look at the world differently’
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Michael Moran, 1946-2018
Professor of government rose from poverty in childhood to become leading expert on British public policy
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Interview with Robert Bickers
The Wolfson History Prize-nominated professor discusses how China’s past shapes its nationalism and why the Communist Party’s ‘historical nihilist’ label suits him
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Student feedback on Facebook could be ‘very useful’ for regulators
Study reveals feedback on social media sites closely correlate to measures of quality such as England's TEF
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Ministers rack up ideological own goals
Two recent news stories show just how far the government is prepared to go in sacrificing the international good standing of UK higher education on the altar of neoliberal market ideology. Even after...
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Let’s stay together
I wish to dissent from plans to further break up the University of London, a federal institution by design and destiny. The desire of the leadership of King’s College London, among others, to become...
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Shifts in impact
The change announced on 11 April by Research England as an update to the research impact rules for the research excellence framework 2021 was introduced as “Following feedback from the sector, the...
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Panel compositions
The Black Female Professors Forum welcomes the announcement on the membership of the research excellence framework criteria phase and assessment phase subpanels. The forum heeded the open call from...
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One for the Kindle?
Alberto Manguel’s Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (New and Noteworthy, Books, 5 April) appears to be a most enthralling read. Nevertheless, as an academic endeavouring to dispose of...
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Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, by Jack Hartnell
Book of the week: Rachel Moss praises a study that peels back the skin of a misunderstood era often defined by death