Universities have once again seen a rise in philanthropic donations, but there are warnings that a cap on tax relief announced in last week’s Budget could stop this progress “dead in its tracks”.
The National Audit Office has called for tougher action against overseas students who are breaking visa rules, prompting Universities UK to warn that “legitimate concerns about immigration” should...
By Kaustuv Basu, for Inside Higher Ed
Higher fees for UK master’s courses are deterring students from continuing their studies and the deterrent is strongest for those from poorer backgrounds, according to a new study.
Four learned societies have written to the prime minister to protest against plans to reduce the resources of the Lords Science and Technology Committee.
David Willetts has declined to offer any support to a University of Cambridge student who was suspended for two and a half years for heckling him.
Mercedes Camino commends the untangling of atrocities committed during the Franco era
Charles Seife is eased through mathematical relationships that help to make sense of reality
In this dense, if repetitious, study of the modernisation of France, Richard Kuisel tells of a second French resistance. Not to German occupation, but to a foe pervading all of French life, namely...
It is a disturbing truth, as Jonathan Clark has pointed out in Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1986), that academics promoting a...
Save all, read all? Matthew Reisz on the archivists devising protocols for preserving born-digital data
Palestinian universities are determined to expand despite limited resources. Matthew Reisz writes
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILFollow on Fund• Award winner: Kate Pickett• Institution: University of York• Value: £99,925Discussing inequality: materials for the classroom and beyond• Award...
Scholars' remuneration packages fail to match pay in many other professions. Jack Grove reports
Tensions between publishers and funding bodies over open access to research papers have flared up again after the Publishers Association accused Research Councils UK of riding roughshod over...