V-cs urged to fork out tax savings for fair access
The National Union of Students has called on university heads to donate their tax savings to its new programme for student-led outreach.
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Campus Review: University of Queensland defends coal seam gas centre
The head of a new Australian research centre says the institution is not prepared to stand idly by as a new energy source is developed. Susan Woodward reports
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Unions reject 0.8 per cent pay offer
Universities have pitched their latest pay offer for next year well short of the 7 per cent claim from the unions, tabling a 0.8 per cent offer that was quickly rejected.
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Inside Higher Ed: When Can Faculty Show Porn?
By Mitch Smith, for Inside Higher Ed
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AHRC recruitment ‘not connected’ to Big Society resignations
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has insisted that the appointment of more than 200 new members to its peer review college is unrelated to a spate of resignations last year.
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Liam Burns battles to keep top NUS job
The president of the National Union of Students will face a strong challenge for his job at next week’s annual elections.
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Stoker experts bite back against Twilight and ‘Americanised’ teen vampires
“My revenge is just begun,” proclaimed Count Dracula in the original 1897 novel. “I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.”
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Why so prickly?
International students have enriched the UK and its universities immeasurably. It makes little sense for the Home Office to keep them out, argues Edward Acton
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The Assumptions Economists Make
Finance experts must ditch unrealistic conjecture and embrace eclecticism, finds Michelle Baddeley
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Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
Deborah Rogers finds the modern netherworld too 'lite' and longs for a return to the dark side
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Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011
Unlike the review you are now reading, those collected in this volume are essays of several thousand words each. In her introduction, Martha Nussbaum puts forth a philosophy of reviewing, based on...
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Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
You can't judge a book by its cover, nor even for that matter by the cover endorsements, as likely as not to be written by the author's friends. A much nicer indicator of the readability, if not the...
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Harold Thimbleby gets to know the people behind the computer in a fascinating but rambling account
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The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
Simon Critchley is a leading British "Continental" philosopher. Hegel said that philosophy started in the East and moved to the West: so with Critchley. He began in Essex and now teaches in New York...
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Wasted World: How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet
In his latest work, Rob Hengeveld has an important message to deliver: the Earth is on the brink of collapse and urgent action is needed because the carrying capacity of the planet has been exceeded...