Lib Dem leaders urged to rethink White Paper
Hughes issues plea to win back students' trust as party conference aims to overcome its 'sense of bereavement' over tuition fees. Simon Baker reports from Birmingham
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Amend AAB proposal to keep STEM strong, 1994 Group tells ministers
The grade threshold at which student places are removed from the recruitment cap and thrown open to full competition should be lowered from AAB to ABB at A level, a mission group has argued.
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Battle for control of pensions looms
Fury as chair suggests employers could question UCU's involvement in the USS. John Morgan writes
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Wake-up call for Europe to quicken Spring awakening
Jack Grove reports from Copenhagen on the Arab yearning for academic partnership and cooperation
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Emerging properties: ignore the Anglo-Saxons and try the developing angle
Universities in Europe have been advised by a World Bank official to look to developing countries for inspiration rather than copying British and US models of higher education.
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You can't have it, it's private
Scholars decry institutions' refusal to release data and desire for good news stories. Jack Grove writes
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Sighs on the prize
Anachronistic academic awards for students can pose headaches for long-suffering staff, writes Adrian Furnham
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Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990
Patrick Hannay reflects on the waste and diversion of energy by a movement that purported to cure a cultural malaise
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Diary
LondonBetween Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of AsiaFor many in the West, if they think about the area at all, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan...
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The Pick - The Passenger
Credit: Catherine AshmoreThe PassengerEnglish National OperaWe are on a glitzy ocean liner in the early 1960s. Walter, a German diplomat, and his wife Liese are setting off to Brazil. Suddenly she is...
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I'm sorry, I'll write that again
"This could be the end for Lapping." That was the ominous response of Louise Bimpson, Corporate Director of Human Resources, to the revelation that Gordon Lapping, head of our Department of Media and...
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TV review: Hilary Mantel: A Culture Show Special
Hilary Mantel's work is suffused with undercurrents and with what might have been, says Gary Day
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Film review: Mademoiselle Chambon
Duncan Wu finds drama in the smallest gesture in a finely nuanced account of an unexpected passion
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Anna Siewierska, 1955-2011
Anna Siewierska was best known in academic circles for her work in linguistic typology, but her colleagues also remember her excellent hosting skills, her friendly nature and her love of hiking and...
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Appointments
Social Policy AssociationSue DuncanSue Duncan, who was the UK's first chief government social researcher, has been named the new president of the UK Social Policy Association. Professor Duncan, who...