Ministers risk ‘debacle’ with core and margin delay
Newer universities have criticised the government for delaying the announcement of student number controls in 2013-14.
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Welsh funding council ‘forces through’ 20 per cent cut in places
The University of Wales, Newport, has started “emergency discussions” after the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales confirmed that the number of students entering the institution will be cut...
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Inside Higher Ed: A call to respect rights
By Mitch Smith, for Inside Higher Ed
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World Reputation Rankings a hot topic at Going Global
The launch of the 2012 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings was a hot topic at the British Council’s Going Global conference in London last month. Here, rankings editor Phil Baty talks to...
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US pay rises fail to match inflation
Full-time academic staff in US universities continued to receive below-inflation pay rises in 2011-12, a report has found.
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Thinktank’s plans to spread university news to the poor
Bolder measures are required to ensure students from poorer families have access to information about university courses, a thinktank has said.
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Government’s sums must be right…or else, says Hefce head
The head of England’s funding council has warned that government calculations on student loan repayments “have got to turn out to be robust” if the new higher education system is to be financially...
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Four-fifths of institutions set to spend at least £5m on estates ‘wow factor’
Almost eight in ten UK universities will embark on major capital projects worth more than £5 million in the next year as they face up to fiercer competition for students under the new regime.
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Flying solo
You think your commute is bad? In a tough job market, professional opportunities are taking scholars far from their nearest and dearest. Matthew Reisz asks if today's ideal academic is unencumbered...
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Uncharted territory
The REF's conflation of intellectual quality and geographical scale makes little sense and may have negative consequences for UK research, argues Alastair Bonnett
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Language: The Cultural Tool
Kerstin Hoge takes a trip into the heart of functionalism with a maverick iconoclast
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An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
A reminder of pedagogy's power to reach beyond the logic of capital enthuses Shahidha Bari
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On Sacrifice
Philosopher Moshe Halbertal distinguishes two kinds of sacrifice: sacrifice to and sacrifice for. Sacrifice "to", which is older, means a gift, as in the giving of an animal or even a human to a god...
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Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research
In this socio-historical account of the US' federally mandated institutional review boards, or IRBs, Laura Stark begins by offering an ethnographic analysis of the "knowledge experts" who sit on the...
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan dips her beak into the inner life of our mysterious feathered friends