Discovering you have got cancer
Nic Mitchell Towards the end of 2014, I discovered I had joined the growing number of people in the UK…
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Tackling Europe’s student mobility brain drain
Student mobility is a key issue across European higher education. But it is often seen as a way…
Erasmus generation making plenty of impact
Revelations that one million babies had been born to Erasmus students since 1987 caught the headlines when the…
‘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,…
‘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…
British universities pin their flag to European Union mast
In the run-up to elections for new European Parliament speculation was rife that Britain might be heading for…
Communications in the digital age: features are blogs and news is a tweet!
I left mainstream newspaper journalism when I was just 35 after developing repetitive strain injury (RSI as it…
Alpine venue for European unis focus on change
The 2014 conference of the European universities public relations and communications network EUPRIO is taking place in the…
From feast to famine to feasting again!
You’ll be living from ‘feast to famine’ they told me when I decided to go freelance and set…