Log on, Africa
Re your feature on private higher education in Africa (“A ‘teaching shop’ on every corner”, 22 October). As a veteran educationalist in Africa, I fully agree with the statement by Adebayo Olukoshi...
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Sensing bias
We hear that David Cameron has asked Ucas to make university applications “name-blind” to avoid bias against black students (“On improving diversity, the sector has a clear choice: lead or be led”,...
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Comradely chic
Lara Cook, in her laudatory review of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Books, 29 October), states that Stalin’s team “even into the 1930s,...
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Keeping calm and lobbying on
With less panic than it showed prior to 2010’s flat-cash result, science hopes for another round of it-could-have-been-worse
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Spending on university estates up by half a billion
Capital expenditure rises by a quarter as universities aim to compete in marketised sector
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Middlesex University v-c seeks inspiration from institution’s past as he sets future course
Tim Blackman is keen to build on successes achieved in his predecessor’s two decades in charge
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University of Michigan focuses on widening participation
President of US campus also seeks to aid the local economy and forge global partnerships
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Dwijen Rangnekar, 1965-2015
A prominent academic activist has died
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Boosting the opportunities for Anglo-Brazilian partnerships
Universities UK meeting hopes to build further on existing initiatives
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Interview with Tanni Grey-Thompson
The multiple Paralympic gold medallist and now university chancellor reveals her excitement about graduation ceremonies and her sleeplessness over Daleks
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Funding variation across UK and cross-border money flows revealed in UCU report
Student mobility meant nearly £500 million of support funding flowed across borders in 2013-14
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Why did the chicken cross the road? For public engagement, of course
Researchers have employed a comedian to help them reach out to a wider public