From Pinochet to Piñera, Chile's way is to make students pay
Latin American state's exposure to loan liabilities a downside of high-fees regime, writes Paul Jump
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Grant winners
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council• Award winners: Dominic Joyce, Kobi Kremnizer, Raphaël Rouquier and Balázs Szendrõi• Institution: University of Oxford• Value: £1,831,169Motivic...
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Blogconfidential: Final reckoning
In the last in this series, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Final reckoning
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Appointments
University of the West of ScotlandBob MastertonBob Masterton has been appointed director of the new Institute of Healthcare Associated Infection – Policy and Practice, a partnership between the...
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Playing the long game
There are pitfalls to setting up an overseas campus but the grand ideas do translate into practice, says Paul Greatrix
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Time to wrest control of our pension pots from politicians' grasp
As expectations of retirement income take a turn for the worse, Andrew Oswald offers a few ideas for reversing the trend
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Academy unbound
David Vaiani argues that the UK's universities must cast off the bonds of state finance to thrive on the global stage
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Hearts and minds
Terry Castle's fearlessly frank essays range over sexual identity, family, jazz, lesbian kitsch and a devastating affair with an older academic. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
NorwichPlane JamUnmanned aircraft will enter the lower airspace of the city of Norwich as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, which runs from 6 to 21 May. Plane Jam is an intervention by the...
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The Pick - Brighton Festival 2011
Brighton Festival 2011Brighton, 7-29 MayThe Brighton Festival 2011 opens over the weekend with music, mime, a children's parade and a documentary about Aung San Suu Kyi - this year's guest director...
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Metaphorically speaking
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced that he shares the concerns about the divisions between academics and management recently expressed by Alison Johns,...
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Frank Healey, 1923-2011
Frank George Healey was one of the leading figures in the reform of modern language teaching in universities during the 1960s and 1970s.However, his introduction to university life had not been an...
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TV review: Extraordinary People: The World's Heaviest Man Gets Married
Gary Day is mesmerised by the bedridden life of a man mountain who courts global media attention
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Film review: Berliner Philharmoniker - A Musical Journey in 3D
Philip Dodd finds physical and critical distance obliterated in a 3D film where the brand is king
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Cambridge hikes foreign surcharge
Deficit of £30m forecast even as non-EU fees take second 10% rise in a row, writes Simon Baker