Academy unbound
David Vaiani argues that the UK's universities must cast off the bonds of state finance to thrive on the global stage
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Hearts and minds
Terry Castle's fearlessly frank essays range over sexual identity, family, jazz, lesbian kitsch and a devastating affair with an older academic. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
NorwichPlane JamUnmanned aircraft will enter the lower airspace of the city of Norwich as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, which runs from 6 to 21 May. Plane Jam is an intervention by the...
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The Pick - Brighton Festival 2011
Brighton Festival 2011Brighton, 7-29 MayThe Brighton Festival 2011 opens over the weekend with music, mime, a children's parade and a documentary about Aung San Suu Kyi - this year's guest director...
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Metaphorically speaking
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced that he shares the concerns about the divisions between academics and management recently expressed by Alison Johns,...
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Frank Healey, 1923-2011
Frank George Healey was one of the leading figures in the reform of modern language teaching in universities during the 1960s and 1970s.However, his introduction to university life had not been an...
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TV review: Extraordinary People: The World's Heaviest Man Gets Married
Gary Day is mesmerised by the bedridden life of a man mountain who courts global media attention
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Film review: Berliner Philharmoniker - A Musical Journey in 3D
Philip Dodd finds physical and critical distance obliterated in a 3D film where the brand is king
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Cambridge hikes foreign surcharge
Deficit of £30m forecast even as non-EU fees take second 10% rise in a row, writes Simon Baker
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Odds and quads: the Cordwainers College Historic Shoe Collection
These shoes are among 650 pairs that were once used as teaching aids and now comprise the Cordwainers College Historic Shoe Collection.
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Research intelligence - Opening night, curtain call?
Shakespeare journal screws courage to sticking place on open peer review, but doubts remain. Paul Jump writes
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From where I sit - Gulf between aims and outcomes
Investment in education in the Gulf countries has seen a dramatic increase in recent decades. Governments have engaged in highly ambitious projects to put themselves on the global education map:...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of CambridgeThe company you keepDavid Cameron attracts the same sort of Facebook follower as American martial arts fighter Chuck Liddell, while fans of Barack Obama are the type who also...
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The week in higher education
• Two academics planning an anti-monarchy mock execution outside Westminster Abbey were arrested ahead of last week's royal wedding. Chris Knight, a former professor of anthropology at the University...