Universities should not assume they can all charge high fees and must be careful not to “underestimate” the competition they will face from new providers such as further education colleges, David...
What do a rubbish-collecting recommissioned milk float, “magnetricity” and the bombardier beetle have in common? They have all played a part in helping academics and their universities triumph in the...
Students protesting against plans for higher tuition fees and the abolition of the Education Maintenance Grant have barricaded themselves in the constituency office of the deputy leader of the...
A national programme that aims to widen participation in higher education is to be scrapped.
The Freedom of Information Act enables public access to scientists' research data, but can scientific knowledge really be extracted in this way? Scientists should engage with the public, but need to...
This should be the age of reason but we are failing to foster the intellectual skills that could liberate student minds. Linda Elder argues that we should embed critical thinking at the heart of the...
Roger Morgan salutes a collection of personal memories from a stimulating and original historian
Alex Danchev enjoys the pontifications of a scholar led happily astray from the topic in hand
Financial crisis is a many-headed hydra and unravelling its causes a Herculean task. In The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame?, Howard Davies makes significant progress, presenting a relatively clear...
The back cover of Arguments for Socialism describes Tony Benn as "the most controversial man in British politics". It is hard to think of Benn, now a national treasure, as a divisive figure - but of...
Cameron Macdonald enjoys the ethnographic detail amid tales of cultural ignorance and exploitation
Sean McMeekin's riveting book tells the tale of two dysfunctional undertakings of the First World War. One was the famous, yet incomplete and therefore largely unusable, Baghdad Railway built by...
Hayden White began his career as a historian and ended it as a - what exactly? A linguist? A literary theorist? "Academic intellectual" is the term preferred by Robert Doran in his introduction to...
Les Gofton finds insufficient illumination in this particular bid to 'reorient incivility research'
In a breathtakingly vivid account of the history of food trade and its production and consumption, Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas offer a series of metaphors to illustrate the dilemmas facing our...