Public ‘caught between the aims of scientists and politicians’
Political ideology, scientific arrogance and the media’s search for a good story are hindering attempts to explain scientific findings, an academic claims. Matthew Reisz reports
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Inside Higher Ed: Exercising only their minds
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
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Don’t believe the gripes about fees: campaign to drum up applications begins
A high-profile public information campaign will be launched today to persuade young people to apply to university for 2012-13 entry despite the trebling of the tuition fee cap.
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Willetts mulls quota-free recruitment of self-funding UK students
Universities could be allowed to recruit unlimited numbers of UK undergraduates who are able pay their tuition fees upfront under plans being considered by the coalition government.
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FE college cuts Uclan ties over fees dispute
Further evidence has emerged of divisions between universities and their further education college partners, with allegations of anti-competitive behaviour over tuition fees.
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Court date for union in bid to stop Strathclyde cuts
Academics at the University of Strathclyde are set to protest outside a meeting of the university court today to oppose planned cuts that could endanger more than 100 jobs.
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State school numbers grow but Cambridge takes only 16 black UK applicants
The University of Cambridge increased its proportional intake from state schools and colleges last year, but only 16 of all successful UK applicants were black.
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Systems failure
A scandal involving clinical trials based on research that was riddled with errors shows that journals, institutions and individuals must raise their standards, argues Darrel Ince
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Words as weapons
Study of the best that has been thought and said is under attack. Fred Inglis turns to F.R. Leavis for the ordnance with which to defend the humanities
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Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
A scientific explanation for human moral values is far from straightforward, reveals Margaret Boden
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The Coalition and the Constitution
As UK citizens go to the polls on AV, Paul Whiteley is impressed by an analysis of joint governance
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The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease
In his work Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino urges consideration of brevity as a positive and welcome attribute in writing, but it is unlikely that he had in mind a book quite as thin...
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Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses
By now, books, articles and blogs about the virtues and vices of online distance learning are hardly new, and are frequently repetitive. But Taylor Walsh's Unlocking the Gates is different. She...
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Ashes and Sparks: Essays on Law and Justice
Michael King takes a look at legal, human rights and societal issues from a lawyer's perspective
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The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II
Over the past decade, historians working on the Second World War have shifted their attention from the origins of the conflict to its impact. Fighting across the world between 1939 and 1945 led to...