The week in higher education
• Losses on the government's student loans book could be offset by the state's ability to borrow at record-low costs, two economists have argued. In a letter to the Financial Times on 8 February, Tim...
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16 February 2012
Don’t let the party end - How to keep first-years engaged after the freshers’ festivities
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Odds and quads
The Broadlands Archives at the University of Southampton include a huge quantity of material from Broadlands in Hampshire, the country residence of the 19th-century prime minister Lord Palmerston and...
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Community organiser: Obama pledges funding for local colleges
The US Department of Education has emerged as one of the winners in Barack Obama’s 2013 budget request, with a 2.5 per cent increase in funding and promises of support for community colleges.
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World Reputation Rankings launch date revealed
The 2012 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings will be published on 15 March.
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Ebdon to get Offa job
Les Ebdon will be appointed as the next director of the Office for Fair Access after it emerged that the prime minister has no powers to block the decision of Vince Cable, the business secretary, to...
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Go-getters don’t have to go home: government tweaks student visas
Graduates entrepreneurs with “world-class innovative ideas” will be allowed to remain in the UK beyond their university studies, as the government responds to criticisms of its new visa regime for...
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Inside Higher Ed: WTF, Arizona
By Mitch Smith, for Inside Higher Ed
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Post-92 academics to vote on pensions strike
University and College Union members in newer universities will be given a “consultative ballot” on whether to reject the government’s latest pensions offer and strike again.
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Warwick v-c to chair new commission on future of sector
Leading figures from higher education in the UK and US have agreed to serve on a major new independent commission looking at the future of the sector in England.
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Oxford opens up on graduate destinations
Oxford has stolen a march on the rest of the sector by exposing its graduate destinations to detailed scrutiny - exploding a few myths in the process. Simon Baker investigates
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Pseuds' corner
Baffled by the ease with which titles promising to turn world history on its head have won huge audiences despite defying logic and lacking proof, Daniel Melia laboured to divine the hidden secrets...
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The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
Sarah Toulalan lauds a look at how carnal crime and punishment gave way to a stress on private consent
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Travels in China
Impressions of an 'unknowable' China at the end of the Cultural Revolution fascinate Kerry Brown