Lawsuit filed in Duke cancer case
A university at the centre of a medical research scandal is being sued by two cancer patients and the families of six deceased patients.
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Inside Higher Ed: Plagiarism betrayal?
By Elizabeth Murphy, for Inside Higher Ed
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Debt, not career prospects, weighs most heavily on students’ minds
Young people are more concerned about tuition fees and debt when thinking about university than they are about employment prospects, a new survey suggests.
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'Support your entrepreneurs', sector told
Student and academic entrepreneurs need more support in universities because the UK is lagging behind other nations, a conference heard.
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Anger over St Andrews’ £36,000 fee for rest-of-UK students
The University of St Andrews has joined the University of Edinburgh in offering the most expensive undergraduate courses in the UK for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students.
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Public funding up, fees held in Northern Ireland
Tuition fees for Northern Irish students wanting to study in the Province will be maintained at close to current levels and institutional budgets will be protected by a £40 million investment, the...
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Cheaper by the dozen: universities cut fees in response to White Paper
Around a dozen universities in England are considering lowering their tuition fees for 2012-13 in light of the government’s proposals to hive off some places to institutions charging less than £7,500...
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Black and white and dead all over?
While the public fixates on tabloid phone hacking, the real crisis threatening the survival of newspapers goes unnoticed despite its dire consequences for public affairs, says Tim Luckhurst
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The University and The People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
A 19th-century farmers' movement has left its mark on US universities, finds Francisco Ramirez
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Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
More than two centuries after the revolution of 1789, the identification of the French nation with its republican institutions and values represents one of the most powerful myths in modern history;...
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Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to our Planet's Most Precious Resource
Tony Allan is acknowledged as a world authority in the political economy of water policy and its reform. A pioneer in the development of key concepts in the understanding and communication of water...
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Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History
Sarah Toulalan praises an exploration of how pre-19th-century societies acted on their urges
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Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
Isn't it time we started taking culture seriously in the design of technological innovations? Here, cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo throws down the gauntlet in a manifesto for true...
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The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence
Writing Irish history, for any readership and at any level, presents a challenge of complexity and bias of a very special kind. All historical sources present the difficulties of partiality, limited...
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First-year summertime, time to research, not to unwind
Exeter looks to add value for £9K 'customers', but council members are sceptical. John Morgan writes