Nine letters, 'much needed'
Since John Kentleton asks for a return of THE's competition to identify books by their first and last lines ("Alpha and omega again", Letters, 20 October), could I please request something I have...
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Coalition’s silence on postgraduate questions ‘deafening'
The vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge has offered a robust defence of research as “inherent to the very fibre of a university” and bemoaned the “deafening” silence from government over...
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Support package sweetened for part-time students
Part-time students are to be given an extra year of grace before they become eligible to start repaying tuition fee loans after the government agreed to changes that had been put forward by the...
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Lords announce inquiry into European higher education
A cross-party committee of peers in the House of Lords is to investigate how the European Union can help higher education across the continent to boost jobs, growth and innovation.
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Inside Higher Ed: Do faculty strikes work?
By Kaustuv Basu, for Inside Higher Ed
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Public investment in education to decline to 1950s levels
The 40 per cent reduction in public spending on universities over the next four years will help contribute to the biggest fall in education spending over such a period since the 1950s, a respected...
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Early Ucas data shows 9 per cent fall in 2012 applications
The first set of figures on university applications for 2012 entry, when the fee cap rises to £9,000, shows a 9 per cent fall compared to the same time last year.
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Willetts: ‘REF will take no notice of where researchers publish’
Researchers should not feel obliged to pursue research favoured by prestigious journals, David Willetts has said.
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Council chair steps down as University of Wales announces end to charter
The chair of the council of the University of Wales has stepped down after the education minister called for him to consider his position.
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Anger over ‘policy flip-flopping’ as some rethink fee waivers
One in five higher education institutions in England is seeking to lower its fee levels to less than £7,500 to bid for additional student places, the Office for Fair Access has said.
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Auditors criticise RCUK as budget for shared services project balloons
The research councils might never recoup the money they have spent on the troubled Shared Services Centre, the National Audit Office has warned in a critical report.
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Powered by the people
Independent 'citizen scientists' have always existed, says Darrel Ince, and our networked age of fast computing and open access is helping them to flourish - to the greater good of research
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Ionic, isn't it?
Academics from physicists to experts on Scandinavian culture are crafting stand-up comedy routines based on their work. But this is no joke. Matthew Reisz finds that a crowd's laughter is not the...
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Nine Lives of William Shakespeare
After so much ado, why not a metabiography of the Bard that explores all his guises? asks Willy Maley
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Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Rivalry with Ivy Leaguers and for-profits is harming the 'squeezed middle', discovers Charles Middleton