Harper Adams plans to charge £9k fees
The UK’s leading farming college has joined the growing group of institutions that plan to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a year in 2012.
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Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions
The US higher education system is blighted by a “very long tail of really bad institutions that are taking people’s money for degrees that don’t give any advantage at all to students”, according to...
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London Met plans radical course clear-out in curricular overhaul
London Metropolitan University has announced plans to axe about 400 courses, cutting the number it offers by two-thirds – from 557 to roughly 160.The reduction forms part of a radical shake-up of the...
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Three’s company: Imperial, King’s join UCL in £700m medical project
Imperial College London and King’s College London have announced that they are to become partners in the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.
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Maybe it’s because he’s an adopted Londoner: Shine! winner is ‘lucky’
A Chinese student with a passion for volunteering and London life has been named the British Council’s international student of the year.
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A starring role beckons
As the student experience becomes more crucial to universities' survival, administrators see a chance to step out of their supporting parts. John Morgan examines how their positions may expand and...
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Rising in the East
Fifty years ago this week, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin fulfilled humanity's ancient dream by ascending into the heavens. Colin Pillinger considers the First Cosmonaut's space odyssey and the...
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This Luminous Coast
Laurence Coupe is captivated by a celebration of the nature and culture of East Anglia's coastline
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Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200
The simple life of the hermit was a surprisingly complex business, Helen Castor discovers
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What If Derrida Was Wrong about Saussure?
The three books of Jacques Derrida's annus mirabilis, 1967 - L'Écriture et la difference, La voix et le phénomène and De la grammatologie - along with much of his work of the following decade, depend...
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Thinking in an Emergency
It is said that there are only seven different plots available to the storyteller, and people coping with crises is the basis for several (if not all) of these. The dramatic storytelling that forms a...
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The New North: The World in 2050
Steve Yearley is intrigued by a vision of an Arctic circle of nations benefiting from climate change
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Losing the Race: Thinking Psychosocially about Racially Motivated Crime
A few pages into this book and an old Punch cartoon came to mind: two (white) yokels leaning on a gate, watching another (white) male. The caption? Something along the lines of: "'Ere's a stranger -'...
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Radical Religion in Cromwell's England: A Concise History from the English Civil War to the End of the Commonwealth
Arch-conservatives such as Lewis Namier and A.L. Rowse could never understand why other historians wasted their time on the patently obvious losers of history and the "lunatic fringe", rather than...
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Turkey: A Short History
A historical narrative about Turkey is impressive but lacks a framework, warns M. Şükrü Hanioğlu