US elections: tighter budgets for higher education
By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
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Tara Brabazon: Trade routes of the mind
Harold Innis was a professor at the same institution for decades – but while he remained steadfastly local and empirical, he probed the expansive variables of space and time. Tara Brabazon reveres...
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Major campaign aims to put King’s among the fundraising elite
King’s College London today launched the largest fundraising campaign of any UK university bar Oxbridge.
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Inside Higher Ed: Answering an uninvited preacher
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Downturn hits graduate employment
Graduate unemployment is at its highest level in 17 years, according to figures released today.
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South America is ready to tango with its academic partners
Bank breaks the ice as insular universities look abroad for collaboration. Paul Jump reports
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Progressive state
Kerala's distinctive higher education system is undergoing reform with some success, but there are problems it shares with the rest of India that will take much effort to overcome, say Philip G....
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Can we afford not to spend more?
The Browne report heralds long-overdue competition and diversity in English higher education but, says Vernon Bogdanor, it also sets a big challenge for the government because its vision will not be...
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The market charge
Did necessity or ideology drive thinking behind Browne and the CSR, and will unleashing student/consumer demand improve or imperil the sector? Simon Baker investigates
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Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
A sonic explorer gives Andrew Blake a new channel into the ambient soundscape and its effects on us
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The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910
Robin Feuer Miller on an admirable reassessment of the writer's strange and melodramatic death
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The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590-1640
"Sermon" is a word with an image problem. But then so is "lecture". During the week, I'm a lecturer; on Sundays I morph into an Anglican lay preacher. For a while, in both jobs I held the title of...
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The Canon: Howard Hawks by Robin Wood
No book in the entire field of film studies has had a greater impact on me than this one. Robin Wood's passionate and insightful analysis is the best possible companion to the films of the great...
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The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages
Despite the awkward translation, Helen Castor is moved by an absorbing study of medieval life
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European Governmentality: The Liberal Drift of Multilevel Governance
From the very beginning of European integration in the 1950s onwards, observers have disagreed about whether the process is driven by European states and adds to their power or, on the contrary, sets...