Less than a third of British adults think a university education is worth £9,000 a year, while 59 per cent think two-year degrees are a good money-saving solution, according to an opinion poll.
They're here, they're square, they occasionally look like Brian Cox: Alice Bell and Adam Corner on the new-found cool of the science-minded, big-brained, increasingly self-confident geeks
Increased tuition fees could dramatically alter the flow of students around the UK, with many choosing not to travel outside their home country. David Matthews considers how the devolved nations...
The Führer and his absolute power forced Germans to fight on when all was lost, Jill Stephenson finds
Beliefs that now seem delusional made more sense in a doomsday context, says June Purvis
When J.H. Monk published his great Life of Richard Bentley in 1830, he could count on his readers' general knowledge of the scholarship he discussed. That knowledge has been largely lost, and in...
Hamlet, David Bevington concludes, "helps us to understand ourselves and who we are socially". It's quite a claim, but one that this slender vessel ably justifies. Bevington synthesises the Hamlet...
Handbags at the dawn of the modern age? There's more to it than that, writes Biancamaria Fontana
Amid the current speculation in the UK about new providers entering the embryonic higher education marketplace comes this timely book from the US. In it one quickly discovers that "reinventing"...
In this work of a lifetime dedicated grandly "a la memoria de mis antecesores", David Abulafia surveys a Mediterranean world from a hunters' camp near Rome, set up "435,000 years before the present...
Sally Feldman despairs of an analysis of gender politics that would return us to the Dark Ages
Fear of litigation has left some scholars unwilling to criticise students' work. David Matthews reports
Harper Adams typifies the uncertain financial future faced by specialist institutions. John Morgan writes
United StatesAnti-Semitic, not censorshipThe American Jewish Committee (AJC) has rejected a claim by one of its own officials that some complaints of anti-Semitic incidents on campus amounted to...
The Korean "goose father" stays at home, making the money needed to keep his children and their mother in a US nest so that his goslings can win places at elite American universities - while he earns...