By Anonymous academic. Universities trot out BME staff for photos in their prospectuses, but when it comes to promotions, we are left at the end of the queue. I am a member of my university's BME staff group. Over the years, it has changed from a forum for us to discuss issues of racism, representation, and discrimination, to a co-opted showpiece for the university to show that it is doing its bit towards supporting equality. More...

By Libby Page. As London Fashion Week kicks off, students take a stand against the use of unpaid interns in the fashion industry. It wasn't just the bizarre outfits that attracted curious stares at London Fashion Week on Friday morning. A banner flung out of the window of Somerset House, overlooking the catwalk tents and fashion week crowds, declared: "Paying interns is so in this year."
But is it?
Students from King's College London (KCL) and the campaign group Intern Aware were raising awareness about the continued use of unpaid interns in the fashion industry. More...

By Natasha Clark. With more students focusing on their employability skills to try and get a graduate job, these students are no longer aiming for firsts. There was a time when university students feared that getting a first was their only chance of getting a good graduate job, and scrambled to get a seat in the library in the hope of securing the top grades. But now many students are taking a different approach to standing out in the job market – by putting their extra-curricular activities above their education. More...

By Claire Shaw. In five year's time, India will have the largest number of students enrolled in higher education. The UK can't sit back, it must go to India, urges report. UK universities must go to India if they are to benefit from a shake up to international higher education which will see India enrolling the largest number of students into tertiary education in the world by 2020, warns a British Council report. More...

By Timothy Garton Ash. The prime minister's careless immigration pledge is putting off some of our brightest visitors – and damaging Britain. Stupid. Incoherent. Short-sighted. Cack-handed. Intrusive. Counter-productive. One thesaurus is not enough to describe the folly of the British government's policy towards foreign students. Working in a British university, I see its dire effects every day. Kafkaesque, intrusive bureaucracy. More...

By Simon Pride. Clever branding and cool apps can beat traditional marketing as universities compete to stand out from the crowd. The role of marketing in higher education has never been more important. In an era of higher fees, universities need to work even harder to differentiate their offering from that of their competitors. More...