Government defends reforms in long-awaited response to committee
The government has defended the public financing of for-profit higher education providers and has said that it wants widening participation funding to be “better targeted”.
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Inside Higher Ed: A professor’s cri de coeur
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Open-access advocate leads honours list
A mathematician who led the boycott in the UK of a major publisher over the issue of open access and a vice-chancellor who served on the Browne Review are among the higher education figures...
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Green light for world’s biggest telescope
The world’s largest telescope is a step closer to being built after organisers gave the go-ahead to its plans at a meeting last week.
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Loans system can’t go on like this, senior figures say
The new student loans system designed by the government to support higher tuition fees is “unsustainable in the long term”, according to a survey of senior figures in higher education conducted by...
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UCLan v-c to retire after 14 years at the helm
The vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire, Malcolm McVicar, is to step down after more than 14 years in charge at the institution.
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Stay sharp – upheaval may be far from over, says 1994 Group chief
The next government spending review and general election could bring changes for universities that would make recent reforms look like “marginal tinkering”, the new head of a mission group has warned.
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Die hard copy
It's a digital world, isn't it? Not for all: the paperless future has yet to arrive and there is a pulp faction in the academy still wedded to print. Matthew Reisz reports
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
Polly Jones is fascinated by a remarkable romance that endured a brutal, brutalising confinement
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The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire": Power and its Limits in Comparative Perspective
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman's classic 1930 interpretation of history, 1066 and All That, concludes by saying that after the Great War "America became Top Nation and history came to a full stop"....
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Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures
Seventeen years after Colin Firth's Mr Darcy bewitched women across the world with the costume-drama equivalent of a wet T-shirt contest, Austen mania shows no sign of letting up. Jane Austen's face...
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Psychology's Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back
Too many mental-health professionals are blind to context, believes Steven Schwartz
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The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future
One of the great unknowns of the modern world is Chinese public opinion. In the quite recent past, government officials and various interested parties abroad could airily declare that all Chinese...
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The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food
Eating is not only a complex physiological process; it is a complex cognitive process, too. It begins with chewing, which is controlled by what is called the "central pattern generator" in the...
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Look in thy iPad, tell the face thou viewest: let's get it on
Comprehensive app tackles Shakespeare's strange tools for seduction. Matthew Reisz reports