Online pressure builds as Obama urged, 'open up'
Open-access advocates have attempted to build up a head of steam in the US by launching a petition on the White House website calling on the Obama administration to require all publicly funded...
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Architects of a nation have to lay down solid foundations
South Sudan's fledgling universities need money - and educated young people - to survive. Graham Jarvis reports
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment programme• Award winner: Chris Hollis• Institution: University of Nottingham• Value: £188,092Clinical effectiveness and patient...
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Outside edge
Give independent scholars their funding due, says Peter Geoghegan: while the academy is 'rethinking', they are busy doing
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Indian postgrads shun UK sector
Rise in non-EU applications masks problem with key market, THE poll finds. John Morgan reports
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Free school meal deal could leave participation funding cupboard bare
Introducing a "student premium" to encourage more teenagers from disadvantaged families to attend university may lead to cuts in support for mature or part-time students, sector figures have warned.
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Fees raise appeal of land of the free
Shocked by price rises, UK students are looking carefully at US universities. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Ucas chief: contextual data are unreliable
Lowering university offers to reflect social deprivation may be misguided because decisions are being based on unreliable data, the head of the UK's admissions body has warned.
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Trauma: A Social Theory
"Human beings are storytelling animals," sociologist Jeffrey Alexander tells us halfway through this treatise on the nature of trauma in Western societies. The type of stories we tell ourselves and...
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The Harm in Hate Speech
This is a wonderful book. It conveys complex ideas in an accessible and convincing way. Perhaps I was easy to convince, being one of those who fall on the pro hate-speech laws side of the debate to...
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When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
State security blankets fail to make us safe and do many of us harm, argues Irma van der Ploeg
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The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements
Radicalism characteristically runs in cycles, and after the post-1991 quiescence, the pursuit of democracy has re-emerged in the Arab Spring, in Tibet, Rangoon and Moscow, in the Occupy Wall Street...
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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Halfway through reading this monograph I instinctively did what Leah Price says people do with books: I used it as a prop to fend off the unwanted overtures of a friendly tourist on a train. That is...
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Watch the birdie
The sole surviving chick from a pair of peregrine falcons nesting on a Nottingham Trent University building has been cooed over by more than half a million people since its first appearance via the...
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Teesside dean criticised for email guidance on 'maximising performance'
A university has defended a senior manager who encouraged staff to improve student-completion rates by resubmitting work, giving "generous" deadline extensions and passing assignments before they had...