Harder working, less satisfied – the foreign scholar’s lot?
Foreign academics working in the US are more productive than their American counterparts – but are also less satisfied with their work, a study has concluded.
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IT infrastructure receives multi-million pound boost
The UK’s higher education and college IT network, JANET, is to benefit from a £31 million boost from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
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‘No confidence’ vote over UCL provost’s NHS role
The students’ union at University College London has passed a vote of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant, after he was appointed to take charge of the NHS in England under controversial...
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'Labour would have spared sector Maoist and chaotic reforms'
The government’s higher education reforms have created “unnecessary risk” for universities, the shadow business secretary has said in his first major speech on the sector.
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Offa releases details of revised access agreements
Proposals by 25 universities and colleges to cut their tuition fees so they can bid for 20,000 cut-price undergraduate places in 2012-13 have been approved by the Office for Fair Access, but it has...
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Deadlock breaks as RLUK announces new ‘big deal’ with Elsevier
Research libraries have reached a “new and improved” deal with the journal publisher Elsevier that ends a four-month stand-off between the two.
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Face value
University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, but are they mere glad-handing figureheads or can they make a genuine difference to the institution...
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Canary in the coal mine
Why has the idea of publicly funded higher education crumbled so quickly in England? James Vernon explores the origins of an academic culture that has internalised market rationalities and traces the...
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Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments his Shrinking Brain...
Laurie Taylor revels in the shock of recognition as a scholar laments the dying of the light
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The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World
Experts will relish these paradigm-shifting concepts but lay readers may struggle, warns Graham Farmelo
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Bankside: London's Original District of Sin
I should probably keep this quiet - I know how huge academic salaries are and that you'll snap up the London house I've always had my eye on. One of the three riverside terraced houses on Cardinal's...
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Eco-Republic: Ancient Thinking for a Green Age
No sooner had I reviewed for this publication (3 November) William Ophuls' Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology, which asks us to rethink our relationship with the most famous Greek...
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Two hundred thousand heads are better than one: Harold Thimbleby on the worldwide web of thought
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Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection
Fan fiction is simply fiction created by fans of other works, who borrow characters or fictional worlds from these works and create short stories, books or (increasingly) audiovisual content using...
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The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
As status-seeking managers multiply, they pervert the university's core mission, Alan Ryan laments