Students to fight fees hike in court
Two sixth-form students have launched legal action against what they claim is the government’s “unlawful” decision to treble the tuition fee cap to £9,000.
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EPSRC won’t shelve ‘shaping capabilities’ – but will consult more
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has declined to mothball its controversial shaping capability policy but agreed to work more closely with learned societies on implementing it.
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Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
We're all in this together or we won't be in it at all: Jules Pretty on a call to arms for the planet's future
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Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist
The life of a polymath with 'piercing sagacity' is delightfully rendered, finds Tim Birkhead
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Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain
If society is a metaphorical building and income levels determine which floor people get to live on, then who inhabits the basement, who lives in the penthouse, who lives in between, and how much...
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What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present
Joanna Bourke begins What it Means to be Human with a curious letter from "An Earnest Englishwoman" to The Times in 1872, enquiring whether women might be classified as animals. It transpired that...
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Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
A skewed comparison of opera's heavyweights results in a bloodless spectacle, notes Mark Berry
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What Is Madness?
What is Madness? begins beautifully, echoing R.D. Laing's 1960 manifesto The Divided Self, with references to European (and especially French) thinkers that few of its readers may be familiar with,...
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Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
In 1900, the highest-paid living writer, and the most notorious, was Marie Corelli. Her 1893 novel Barabbas: A Dream of the World's Tragedy went through 54 editions in her lifetime, sold more than...
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News in brief
Journal subscriptionsSlightly more bijou 'big deal'Research libraries have reached a three-year "big deal" agreement with journal publisher Wiley-Blackwell that "takes into account the financial...
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Full-throttle hype could crash: OIA
Watchdog says institutions may suffer for selling what they can't provide. David Matthews reports
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Does staff training x benefits ÷ by cost = value for money?
Sector can use toolkit to gauge whether it is worth investing in coaching. David Matthews reports
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In the global jobs market, foreign talk isn't cheap, it's invaluable
Lack of language skills hampers UK graduates' efforts to find employment. Jack Grove reports
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Dead interesting: fleshing out the zombie allure
"No one would want to be a shambling, rotting corpse," said Marcus Leaning, senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Winchester. "Yet since the early 2000s, there has been a...
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News in brief
South AfricaState steps in at Walter SisuluA third South African university has been placed in government administration after landing in financial difficulties. Hundreds of staff at Walter Sisulu...