Memoirs of a Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English by David Ellis
Gary Day on a sympathetic study of influential literary critic F. R. Leavis and how the teaching of literature has changed

Gary Day on a sympathetic study of influential literary critic F. R. Leavis and how the teaching of literature has changed
The European Commission has announced plans to invest €22 billion (£19 billion) in public-private research and innovation projects over the next seven years.

The research excellence framework risks turning British economics into “a purely quaint academic subject with no connection to the real world”, an academic paper has warned.

Fewer than 15 per cent of graduate employers have said they will use a new system for recording student achievement when choosing who to recruit.

The £1.1 billion annual investment in science capital announced in last month’s spending round is the biggest “for decades” and must not be wasted.

Universities should play a bigger role in driving growth and should be more accessible to smaller businesses, according to a government-commissioned review.







Two university lecturers branded as being part of “bad academia” by the education secretary have denounced his proposals for the new National Curriculum.

More than 19,000 extra students have applied to university this year compared to 2012, new figures show.

Download the podcastTimes Higher Education editor-at-large Phil Baty visits a busy international student recruitment fair in Nanjing, Eastern China, organised by recruitment agents IDP, where he...