What Chinese investment means for African higher education
Ellie Bothwell reports on what both regions gain – and lose – from the Sino-African partnership
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Apprenticeship levy 'could worsen part-time degree crisis'
Hepi report calls for levy to extend to employer-sponsored degrees, or firms will likely pull out of funding such courses
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The week in higher education – 21 April 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world's media
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Academics must not give up on monographs
Producing ‘real’ books builds academics’ collective public presence, and it is also the most irresistible scholarly challenge, says Ödül Bozkurt
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Academics in Italy have boycotted assessment. What has it achieved?
Many Italians have refused to take part in the country’s research assessment exercise. Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao consider the protest’s impact
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Grant winners – 21 April 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 21 April 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Dissing dons down the ages: a century of pejoratives
What insults have people used to disparage intellectuals over the past century?
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China in Africa: empire-builders or alliance-makers?
China’s motives, like the West’s, are mixed, but it clearly has a role to play in building capacity in African higher education
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Safety in numbers: higher education in Pakistan
Investing in the education of millions of young people can help defuse a security time bomb, argue Faisal Abbas and Abdur Rehman Cheema
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Getting creative with IFS report
Reading through the Institute of Fiscal Studies’ report on graduate earnings, it is as if the authors have taken their cue from Nicky Morgan’s “don’t bother studying the creative arts” mantra (“...
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Stop digging
It seems that the Higher Education Funding Council for England is now making higher education policy by blog. On 13 April, a policy adviser to the funding council put out her thoughts on Hefce’s bid...
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Quality assured
The tone of Susan Lapworth’s article about how the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s plans for quality assessment have been misunderstood is so patronising that it almost beggars belief...