‘What about the common good?’ Chaplains respond to White Paper
Forty university chaplains have signed a letter criticising the coalition government’s White Paper for seeing higher education in “highly individual” terms.
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Date set for strike at Middlesex
Two unions are set for strike action at Middlesex University over job cuts that some claim could reduce the workforce by 15 per cent.
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University of London v-c to step down
The vice-chancellor of the University of London has announced he is stepping down just one year into the post.
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Scottish university to offer three year degrees to help students cut costs
The University of Dundee is to introduce three year degrees to appeal to debt-shy undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Political parties wrangle over facts and figures in Labour’s £6k fees plan
Labour’s plan to cap tuition fees at £6,000 would be of greatest benefit to graduates in their 50s earning £72,500 a year, according to an analysis.
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Inside Higher Ed: ‘Irvine 11’ found guilty
By Libby A. Nelson, for Inside Higher Ed
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Labour proposes £6k fee cap, but Conservatives smell a U-turn
The Labour Party would reduce the annual tuition fee cap to £6,000 if it were in power, Ed Miliband has said, in an apparent move away from favouring a graduate tax.
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Funding bodies stump up cash in open access agreement
Three European funding agencies have signed an open access funding agreement with journal publisher Wiley-Blackwell.
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Pressure on EPSRC mounts over ‘shaping capabilities’ programme
Six leading scientific bodies, including the Royal Society, have urged the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to reconsider its controversial “shaping capability” measures.
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All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities
Flora Samuel welcomes an exuberant attack on a sphere dominated by greed and lack of vision
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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
Howard Davies admires the aims of a defender of government but questions his certainties
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Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life
Puppets are creepy. It tells you something that they are at the heart of Freud's brilliant and occasionally absurd reflections about the feeling of the uncanny, in his reading of the automaton...
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The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment
I had so much to do last weekend. Apart from the usual domestic chores, there was my next book to work on, a conference paper to complete, and new lectures to think about. And there was this review...
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Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
Les Gofton is intrigued by the memoir of a scholar who finds modern life deeply disappointing
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The Puzzle of Left-handedness
The "puzzle" here, according to Rik Smits, is that while left-handedness is an enduring characteristic of humans, it has long been seen as an aberration, linked to all sorts of negativity and widely...