Another paper authored by University of Manchester professor Sylvia Bulfone-Paus has been retracted – but this one does not feature the Russian postdoctoral researchers blamed for misconduct that led...
The senate of Queen Mary, University of London, has become the latest academic body to pass a vote of no confidence in universities and science minister David Willetts.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
A survey has revealed that graduates are more likely to support increased tuition fees and a reduction in the number of university places. Thirty per cent of graduates believe that opportunities to...
University journalism courses are not responsible for the industry’s ethical failings, such as the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, journalism lecturers have told the Leveson inquiry
The business secretary has attempted to send a message overseas that UK higher education is planning for “long-term growth” in international markets despite recent changes to student visa rules.Vince...
The government will fund more inducement prizes to solve interdisciplinary challenges as part of its new innovation and research strategy.
The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up scholars to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital...
MIT's Media Lab, long renowned for a 'Wild West' research culture that invents the future, has lost some of its cutting edge. Can a new director restore it to its creative zenith? asks Zoë Corbyn
A reductive approach to social behaviour is bad news for democracy, James Garvey writes
The tale of modern psychiatry's founder dominates this story of changing diagnoses, David Healy finds
In the course of my research on 19th-century politics of prostitution, I was shocked to learn in detail about the miserable lives of prostitutes who served the soldiers of the British Army in India....
The Poet's Freedom is an ambitious book that ranges widely through Western philosophy and literature, making liberal mention of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Kant, Coleridge, Marx and Hegel, and quoting...
A pessimist's insights point to the future woes of the market-driven academy, Professor Y finds
Renaissance writers knew the seductive power of swerving. John Milton, in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649), sensed the English people baulking at the killing of the king: "Another sort......