Students, get it off your chest
Suggestion boxes could be used to encourage overseas learners to complain. John Gill reports
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Russian hawk ascends to position of influence
Fears as right-wing critic of West takes top job at Moscow State centre. Melanie Newman reports
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Western dominance of education under threat
The UK is retaining its share of the international student market, but for how long? Phil Baty reports
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Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas
Historians are likely to mark the end of the era of market fundamentalism at the moment in 2008 when the breakdown of the poorly regulated American financial system wreaked havoc upon economies from...
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Bologna process to be global model?
Countries around the world are looking to a European shake-up of higher education as a model for reform of their own systems, a conference was told. Michael Gaebel of the European University...
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Chinese economy needs 'huge' investment in student talent
Increasing demand for university places is not being met. Phil Baty reports from Hong Kong
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From where I sit - Swat heritage hanging by a thread
Monuments did not make the headlines when the Pakistan Government recognised the Taliban takeover of the Swat Valley in February. This was understandable, as the closure of girls' schools, the fate...
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Moving picture
Ian Stewart's research into biomechanics has revolutionised the field. A road trip, a book review request and a Texan rodeo led to his revelation
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Grant winners
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe MRC is providing about ?7 million to establish three regional hubs that will give UK researchers access to high-throughput DNA sequencing machines. The cutting-edge...
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Don't forget to remember
Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto says we must choose our commemorations wisely
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Book of the week: Replenishing the Earth
Donald MacRaild admires a novel account of the rise of the Anglo-world
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Rise in joint degrees that leap international borders but still hurdles to face
Joint degree programmes offered by universities across international borders have enjoyed an "explosion" in popularity - but they face "vexing questions about accreditation, recognition and...
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Superpowers lose ground as balance of power shifts
'Redistribution of brains' on cards as US and UK struggle to cope with the recession, writes Phil Baty
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Find me a fundraiser
The assertion that there are too many Americans in UK university development offices misses the point ("Americans are 'taking over'?", 11 September).Professionals from the other side of the Atlantic...
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1984: It's coming
In the 25 years since the iconic film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopia, US society has crept ever closer to its bleak vision of paranoia, surveillance, perpetual war and unthinkingness, fears...