Mixed reaction to new postgrad student loans
Nic Mitchell Postgraduate students at English universities are to get a helping hand from the Government in the form of…
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UK universities relying on transnational recruitment
Many English universities are becoming increasingly reliant on recruiting international students through transnational education, or TNE, programmes delivered…
Universities should encourge more staff mobility
Staff mobility needs to be given the same kind of attention as is paid to student mobility if…
Erasmus generation making plenty of impact
Revelations that one million babies had been born to Erasmus students since 1987 caught the headlines when the…
Internationalise by integrating your international students!
Universities must do more to integrate foreign students and staff if they want to ‘internationalise’ their campus and…
‘Focus less on international student recruitment’ – Prof
A LEADING European academic has urged western universities to focus less on international student recruitment and do more…
Mind your marketing language, universities urged
Universities should ‘stop inflating the language’ in their marketing communications and return to old-fashioned virtues, such as truthfulness,…
Swiss vote against immigration is warning to UK
Swiss vote should have been a wake-up call to the British elite so confident of winning the referendum…
‘Reward scientists who can communicate with the public’
A German think tank is recommending rewarding scientists who are good at engaging with the public Scientists who…
EU exit would damage British universities warning
Universities have warned that a British exit from the European Union would be “potentially disastrous” for higher education…