No rest-of-UK flood for Scottish sector
Fears that Scottish universities would offer more places to undergraduates from the rest of the UK because they come with more money attached appear to be unfounded, research by Times Higher...
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Euro billion up for grabs: any takers?
EIB calls on UK universities to apply for long-term, low-interest investment. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Seeding businesslike ideas has allowed rare fruit to flourish
Cross-subsidising 'loss-makers' an essential part of university life, says UUK head. Jack Grove writes
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Transfer of fees to students may be 'over the top'
England may have gone "a bit over the top" in transferring the cost of university education from the state to the graduate, the coordinator of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
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LSE to restart game of risk
Scholars already seek donations 'in the margins', development director says. David Matthews writes
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News in brief
Graduate entrepreneurshipEnterprise flowsThe government has announced that it will fund "milk round"-style job fairs where students and graduates can meet representatives from small and medium-sized...
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A jury of their peers
Academics seeking promotion should be assessed for quality of teaching as well as research, argues Quintin McKellar
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Coalition reforms have left students swimming with sharks
If loans are as fair and as sustainable as ministers say, why aren't their terms and conditions enshrined in law? Liam Burns writes
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Consumption and Its Consequences
Hedonism and selfish materialism are noticeably absent from the shopping list, says Eric J. Arnould
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The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Egalitarianism is hard to find if you pass over anthropology for archaeology, argues Chris Knight
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The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
Many Britons may not be aware that the bicentennial of the War of 1812 will commence in June. Before anyone thinks of Napoleon's ill-fated Russian campaign, the War of 1812 referred to here was a...
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A House Divided: American Art since 1955
How do artists go public? How is their work critically received? And how might they contribute to its reception, from writing public statements to publishing private memoirs, staging publicity...
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Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences
Sergio Sismondo on Big Pharma's use of its political muscle to avoid regulation in the US
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The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
This delightful, literally lightweight book takes you on a brief journey from Brindisi in the heel of Italy's boot to Rome; but what an engaging journey! Robert Kaster and his wife travelled the...
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English Nationalism and Euroscepticism: Losing the Peace
Englishness has long been a puzzle both to philosophers and to historians. As long ago as 1741, David Hume declared: "The English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national...