Between systems, one dead, one stuck in legislative limbo
Inchoate regulatory regime contains 'risk of instability', report finds. John Morgan reports
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Big-brand sound is sweeter than Coke, rings truer than Vodafone
Harvard leads US universities in global list, but Oxbridge doesn't make grade. John Morgan writes
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Freedom a 'former value' in admin-led sector
Growing levels of performance management are threatening to destroy collegiate relationships between academics and administrators, a study has claimed.Burgeoning administration has already led to...
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Get out of your silos and muck in
Humanities and social sciences must cultivate new fields to win Euro cash. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Austerity’s reign in Spain may drive its researchers to greener pastures
Elite league's v-cs say Madrid's 25% cut to science will cause long-term harm. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Fundamental elements
The STFC's achievements offer a template for extracting the full value from UK research, suggests Keith Mason
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With the managers in charge, autonomy isn't what it used to be
The market, not academic freedom, is what our leaders have in mind when they seek to resist political interference, John Holmwood argues
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Politics Without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
This provocative text may be just what isolated political theory needs, argues Matthew Flinde
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The Baker Who Pretended to be King of Portugal
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is stirred by the tale of a pastry chef who laid claim to an Iberian throne
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Domesticating the Airwaves: Broadcasting, Femininity and Domesticity
This book sets out to retell the history of the intimate relationship between broadcasting and domesticity. Set against a backdrop of changing social relations from the 1930s to the present day, it...
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Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
Let's be honest. It's hard to get excited about car parks. That probably accounts for the paucity of serious studies about them. To make matters worse, car parks - known in the US as parking lots -...
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Russell Group split - shock claim
Our vice-chancellor claims to have "inside knowledge" on the rumour that some Russell Group members considered breaking away and forming their own super-elite subgroup after the original group was...
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Evan Wright, 1924-2012
A registrar who served the University of Bristol in various roles for almost 40 years - including seeing the institution through a period of student unrest - has died at the age of 87.Evan Wright was...
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Salford plan to cut Italian: ma cosa fate?
Everyone connected with Italian studies has been dismayed to learn that the University of Salford seems intent on phasing out the discipline there over the next three years.The proposal occurs at a...
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Narrow oversight
In its consultation on the development of a "risk-based" approach to quality assurance, the Higher Education Funding Council for England asserts that the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 "...