Graduate vacancies rise, but so do number of applicants
More than 50 graduates are chasing every job offered by some of Britain’s top employers, new research suggests.
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Knowledge transfer, innovation vouchers and sandwich courses: a ministerial recipe for growth
David Willetts has urged universities to redouble their efforts to boost knowledge transfer income from businesses despite a stagnant economy.
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Arrest over alleged death threats at Queen’s University Belfast
A former employee of Queen’s University Belfast has been arrested as part of an investigation into alleged threats to kill a former colleague.
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Inside Higher Ed: Kill peer review or reform it?
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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New vice-chancellor appointed at Brunel University
A professor of pharmacology has been named as the new head of Brunel University.
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Research council ‘impact reports’ reveal rise in doctoral student progression
The number of research council-funded doctoral students remaining in the academy beyond graduation is increasing, new figures reveal.
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UUK moves to reassure Indian students following shooting
The president of Universities UK has written a letter to newspapers in India expressing his “deep sadness” at the murder of student Anuj Bidve and to reassure others planning to study in Britain that...
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Captured by the castle
Downton Abbey's true star, argues A.W. Purdue, is the house itself: the ultimate British status symbol
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Boom and bust
The University of Wales was brought down by validation, its money-making machine. David Matthews asks how that happened, how others might be stopped from putting cash before quality and whether the...
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Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
Katharine Reeve on an intriguing exploration of how our physical and virtual identities are merging
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
Harold Shukman on a fascinating study of Britain's daring wartime plans for counter-revolution
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Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Over the course of Edith Wharton's long writing career, her women characters do grow up, in notable contrast to her male characters; and, insist Janet Beer and Avril Horner in their book Edith...
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume 1 - Microspherology
Few academics in the UK will have read the writings of Peter Sloterdijk, but in Germany he is a superstar. His 1983 book Critique of Cynical Reason remains the best-selling philosophical work written...
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Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others
The law and order brigade actually makes the US a more violent place, Joanna Bourke learns
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The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature
When I picked up this book, I was expecting two things: a study of the creative retelling of a key classical myth (or its reception) in children's literature; and a focus on texts of fantasy fiction...