Beyond consumer-tourism in the Rainbow Nation
Robert Appelbaum reveals the highlight of his three-month sojourn in South Africa
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Rob Potter, 1950-2014
A distinguished academic expert on urban geography and the geographies of development has died
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Chinese universities beat US in income-related rankings
Universitas 21 grading introduces new measure of purchasing power
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Cavalier attitudes lead to uncivil practices in vivas
Susan Bassnett wonders why PhD examining is still so amateurish and inconsistent in English universities
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探花视频 Student Experience Survey 2014
Universities are working hard and succeeding in their aim to improve life for their students, as 探花视频’s Student Experience Survey results show
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Belarus takes Bologna path to come in from the cold
The former Soviet satellite is working to raise standards and to court foreign students
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A student’s lecture to professors
Can students teach their lecturers a thing or two? Austin Fitzhenry thinks so
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The week in higher education - 15 May 2014
Boasting about an honorary degree is one step up from bragging about a cycling proficiency badge, you might think. But Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, P Diddy or just Diddy, enthusiastically trumpeted...
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Overseas fees of ?11,000 ‘have little impact on demand’
Although tuition charges emerge as most important factor for international students in Hobsons survey
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Animal testing agreement aims at more transparency
But animal rights group criticises move for not going far enough
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Social mobility debate ‘too focused on elite universities’
The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”.
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Pfizer takeover bid: government ‘has looked at merger rules’ on science
But Cable warns that intervention options are constrained by law
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Tuition fee caps removed in Australian federal budget
Australia is to remove all caps on tuition fees, a move billed as allowing its universities to compete with “the best in the world”.
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U-Multirank launched by EU commissioner
A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.
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Academic with criminal history prompts debate at Illinois
By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed