The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists, by David Burke
Architecture meets social experiment in a Modernist block of flats, Flora Samuel writes
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Culture and the Death of God, by Terry Eagleton
The Mephistopheles of the anglophone intelligentsia ponders a God-shaped hole, leaving Fred Inglis exhilarated and maddened
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Funding sources for universities’ capital projects 2008-09 and 2012-13
The proportion of capital investment that universities financed using internal funds has leaped 20 per cent over the past four years, according to data released by the Higher Education Statistics...
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Overseas fees of £11,000 ‘have little impact on demand’
Although tuition charges emerge as most important factor for international students in Hobsons survey
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Animal testing agreement aims at more transparency
But animal rights group criticises move for not going far enough
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Social mobility debate ‘too focused on elite universities’
The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”.
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Pfizer takeover bid: government ‘has looked at merger rules’ on science
But Cable warns that intervention options are constrained by law
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Tuition fee caps removed in Australian federal budget
Australia is to remove all caps on tuition fees, a move billed as allowing its universities to compete with “the best in the world”.
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U-Multirank launched by EU commissioner
A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.
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Academic with criminal history prompts debate at Illinois
By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed
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Students ‘positive’ about transnational HE despite high cost
The impact of transnational higher education on host nations is mainly positive, although more could be done to raise awareness among students.
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Kent v-c warns of dangers to HE of leaving EU
A vice-chancellor has made an impassioned defence of the benefits to universities of European Union membership amid the rise in popularity of Ukip.
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Video: Sir Patrick Stewart interview
Sir Patrick Stewart, known for his many acclaimed roles on stage and screen - including Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series...
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Women in STEM campaign aims to bridge gender gap
The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.
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Colin Pillinger dies aged 70
An academic best known for his attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars has died aged 70.