V-c pledges to match fee-debt payments to support students
A vice-chancellor has told staff at his university that he intends to take on the same tuition fee “debt” as future students.
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Coalition survives Lib Dem backbench rebellion to carry fees vote in Commons
The tuition fee cap in England is set to rise to £9,000 after the coalition government survived a rebellion from Liberal Democrat backbenchers to win a House of Commons vote.
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Appetite for education
A soaring enrolment rate and a driving ambition to compete globally characterise higher education in South Korea. But how is this all-consuming desire affecting society? asks John Morgan
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Reversing into trouble
Mill, Smith and Friedman: look away now. Coalition plans to marketise the academy are a corruption of laissez-faire ideology. Martin Cohen lambasts a liberal approach to 'liberalism'
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Thinking about Leadership
Amanda Goodall finds this analysis perceptive, useful...and it's written by someone who has led
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Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
Many of today's common phrases originated in the Authorised Version, Hannibal Hamlin discovers
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Surviving Hitler's War: Family Life in Germany, 1939-48
Much has been written about women in wartime and post-war Germany, generally to the effect that they were left to shoulder the burdens of maintaining family life in both the terrifying and chaotic...
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The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene
It is not, I suggest, just an accident that all those we think of as typical rational beings - namely human ones - have begun their lives as babies, living in a deeply affectionate and dependent...
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Herding Cats: Being Advice to Aspiring Academic and Research Leaders
Malcolm Gillies enjoys this aphoristic guide to university life but fears time may have moved on
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
Until the 19th century, the average person consumed $3 per day (in today's prices). There were small blips for ancient Rome, the early medieval Arab world and late medieval Europe, but otherwise the...
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Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain
This book advertises itself as a self-directed course to explore mind, brain and consciousness in a way that involves not just reading, but engaging in various activities that allow diligent students...
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Rita, Stan and Ken, too
Fifty years old today, Coronation Street redefined commercial television. Clive Bloom celebrates the quietly socialist institution, once radical, now nostalgic, that offers us a vision of working-...
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Daytime TV: Larger than life
Heroes exist in every arena, says Gary Day, and their passion and valour add colour and zest to history
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Diary
OxfordShelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary FamilyThis major exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford brings together material from its own collection and the New York Public Library...
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The Pick - Cloak and dagger
Aware: Art Fashion IdentityRoyal Academy of Arts, until 30 January 2011Susie MacMurray's Widow looks like a great black glistening ball gown, perfect for a Hollywood star at a grand reception. It is...