New College, curiously familiar courses
Writing course materials for Goldsmiths was a young Gabriel Egan’s first scholarly work. Two decades later, they’re part of a ‘superstar’ institution’s offerings
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PAC minds the gap: MPs sound warning over fees reform
An influential cross-party committee of MPs has warned that the government could face a funding gap of “several hundred million pounds” as a result of its policy on tuition fees and raised the...
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The perils of online ‘friendship’
Thinking of befriending your students on a social-media site? You may want to think again. While it may be a good way to meet students “on their terms”, a lawyer specialising in the use of social...
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Top names, top whack: new humanities-focused institution to charge £18K fees
A new private university college is to be launched, specialising in the arts and humanities and charging tuition fees of £18,000 a year.
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There’s good news as well as bad, international educators hear
Universities have been urged to use financial worries as an opportunity to reassess their internationalisation strategies in the spirit of “never letting a good crisis go to waste”.
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Opinion: Very in curia practices
In a climate of higher fees and rising unemployment, student litigation is likely to increase. Adam Brett offers his evaluation of what universities must do to stay out of court
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Tobacco cash bad for your moral health, Durham told
Durham University has been urged by a senior official at Cancer Research UK to return funding it received from British American Tobacco.
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Union guns for Salford’s ‘white elephant’ as Sheffield staff strike over pensions
Hundreds of the University of Sheffield’s lowest-paid workers are on strike today in a dispute over pension cuts, while union officials at the University of Salford claim that a multimillion-pound “...
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No fixed address
A postdoctoral position was once the passport to a research post for life. But the inexorable growth in numbers of postdoctoral researchers means competition for academic careers is fierce. Paul Jump...
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Signs and wonders
The narrow focus of 'profane' media studies on semiotics and consumption ignores the extent to which culture is rooted in our deep yearning for the sacred, argues Eduardo de la Fuente
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The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
Rapid global temperature shifts are nothing new, as Steve Yearley learns from a cold country's core
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Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity and Gambling Feel so Good
There's more to enjoyment than electrical impulses - Steven Rose feels better distinction should be made
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You Can Help Your Country: English Children's Work during the Second World War
When we think of children in the Second World War, a common image is that of evacuees bound for the countryside. The war, and in particular the German air raid attacks that led to the widespread...
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Shakespeare: From Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592-1623
Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 March, four years after it closed for a redevelopment costing £115 million. On 30 March, the coalition...
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The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games
Tom Palaima agrees that people's fascination with watching violence against others doesn't change