Cambridge strikes deal to cream off top Chinese engineering students
The University of Hong Kong and the University of Cambridge have struck up a new partnership to recruit engineering students from mainland China.
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Oxbridge admissions statistics show four in five students are white
Well over four fifths of students admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge last year were white, statistics show.
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Humanities courses lead to career success, says Grayling ahead of private college launch
Sixty per cent of leading public figures in the UK have humanities, social science or arts degrees, a new study has found.
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UCL challenges students' union over 'no confidence' campaign against provost
University College London’s senior administrative officer has pressed its students’ union to drop a motion of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant.
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Berkeley targets middle classes with financial aid
The University of California, Berkeley has unveiled plans for a new financial aid scheme explicitly aimed at helping middle-class students with their tuition fees.
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Red tape costs FE colleges £180 million a year
Further education colleges could make “substantial” savings by cutting the costs of bureaucracy, according to the National Audit Office.
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Striving to be first among equals
The egalitarian bent of Dutch society has been reflected in its higher education sector - until now. Jack Grove discovers that government and global forces are spurring some institutions to try to...
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If you go down to a campus today...
You're in for a big surprise. From Gothic castles and follies to an airport (and something not too fragrant), university sites across the land are home to some extraordinary places, discovers Matthew...
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On Rereading
Valerie Sanders delights in an off-duty academic's return to the inspirational literature of her youth
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Chanel: An Intimate Life
Anne Hogan on an insightful study of the famous couturiere's complex character and singular journey
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A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa
A monarchy and ruling elite live in conspicuous excess while the majority get poorer. Financial scams, identity theft and unscrupulous moneylenders are rife. A sense of unfairness and desperation has...
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American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
Upon entering the Oriental Institute, nestled in the neo-Gothic University of Chicago campus, you pass under a sculpture of "East teaching the West". This concept of the Near East and the Nile Valley...
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Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks
To create illusions, Fibonacci and algorithms are as important as sleight of hand, discovers C.J. Howls
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Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
Gayle Rubin is an American feminist anthropologist whose seminal essays The Traffic in Women (1975) and Thinking Sex (1984) changed the way we think about sex and gender. This book brings together a...
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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Representations of Reality in History and Fiction
For a genre that until very recently was seen as marginal at best, and hopelessly dull at worst, the historical novel has been very well served of late by in-depth scholarly analyses. Books by...