Cornwall revisits local authority funding link
Students in Cornwall could receive up to £3,000 each from their county council to support their university studies in a first for local authorities under current funding arrangements.
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Post-92s outscore traditional rivals on work goals
Some post-1992 universities have outperformed traditional institutions in the latest set of graduate-destination statistics.
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Nature wins libel battle with Egyptian physicist
A former journal editor has lost his libel claim against the journal Nature over an article reporting allegations that he had abused his position to publish numerous self-authored papers without...
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HE bill is needed, says Willetts, but 'who knows' when it will appear
The universities and science minister has said that a higher education bill will be needed to allow "dissolution" for post-1992 universities and to give new powers to the Office for Fair Access.
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Cogitate, don't regurgitate
George MacDonald Ross argues that to stamp out plagiarism, we must create an environment in which students are forced to think for themselves, while Jude Carroll has practical advice on redesigning...
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The Price of Inequality
The abyss beckons if the West doesn't close the yawning income gap, says Stewart Lansley
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Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It is Heading
This survey is as big as the country it covers, but it pulls its punches, David Bachman finds
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The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World's Most Dangerous Fuel
Principles, priorities, practicalities: fine things all, but easier to discuss separately than together. Most of us want to protect the environment, for example. But which bits, and how best to do it...
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Contesting the Reformation
So the past may not be dead, and may not even be past; but we do usually reach a point where we and it can leave each other alone. We are interested in (say) the history of the Roman Empire, but for...
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Opium: Reality's Dark Dream
Jesper Vaczy Kragh discusses the ecstasy and the agony of humanity's ancient companion
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
From Benjamin Franklin to Ernest Hemingway, American expats have felt compelled to chronicle their sometimes simultaneous fascination with, and consternation at, the City of Light. More recent...
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Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979
Big books can be intimidating, and this is truly a behemoth. The fourth volume in Dominic Sandbrook's acclaimed history of the UK from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, Seasons in the Sun contains...
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The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys
Gender is a battlefield, but the casualties aren't always who you'd expect, Simon Blackburn says
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A World of Gardens
The title of John Dixon Hunt's latest book for Reaktion suggests that it is another Reader's Digest-type overview of iconic gardens in a roughly chronological and geographical survey, but Hunt's...
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After 'fightback', Classics will no longer be all Greek to urban youth
Hackney college centre challenges 'crude notions' of pedagogic relevance. Matthew Reisz reports