David Cameron’s vision for Britain threatens associations such as the Research Information Network that help boost UK productivity and efficiency, argues Tara Brabazon
The GCSE pass rate in England and Wales has increased for the 23rd year running, with seven in 10 entrants awarded at least a C and one in five picking up an A* or A grade.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Calls have been renewed for a national ballot on proposed changes to the sector’s largest pension scheme after it emerged that £2.9 million in bonuses were paid to investment staff.
As funding for public universities falls, poorer students will feel the pinch. John Gill reports
One in 12 of all A-level examinations sat this year were awarded the new A* grade as the overall pass rate rose for the 28th year in a row. As clearing opened this morning, the Universities and...
This week's A-level results may lead to the keenest clearing rush yet. But do universities' websites tell prospective students what they need to know, Hannah Fearn asks a panel of sixth-formers.
Who is the online you - hand-coded pages of hobbies and family photos, terse departmental entries or slickly branded media portals? Zoe Corbyn surveys the world of academics' personal websites
Mary Evans on the politics of corporate crime and its social costs for the poor in the global South
We became the proud owners of a new dog a few weeks ago - a gorgeous golden retriever puppy with huge paws and a voracious appetite for shoes. Although he's our dog, I certainly didn't give birth to...
"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Few sentences have proven as prophetic as this one, taken from the first paragraph of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk...
Prince of Darkness or bringer of the light of modernisation? Vernon Bogdanor on Labour's chiaroscuro genius
Too many cheeses can drive society crackers. Slovenian scholar Renata Salecl tells Matthew Reisz about the paralysing effects of the Western ideology du jour: the 'tyranny of choice'
Tim Birkhead appreciates a great science writer's somewhat erratic tour of avian fidelity and infidelity
The Vatican's dealings with Nazi Germany have been a major source of controversy for decades. From the first staging of Rolf Hochhuth's play, The Representative, in 1963 to the publication in 1999 of...