Student complaints up by a third
The number of student complaints referred to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator shot up by a third last year, according to figures released today.
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U-Multirank: ready to launch, but will it reach its target?
As the EC releases details of its new university ranking system, Phil Baty welcomes the initiative but suggests it is too inward looking to make a global impact
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Courses to improve teaching 'not being taken seriously'
The UK should look at the way other countries are “professionalising” teaching in higher education, mindful of the fact that "not everyone takes [existing] courses seriously".
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Student visas to be cut by a quarter of a million by 2015
The number of student visas issued over the next five years is to be cut by 260,000, according to the Home Office.
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What’s going on? Impact metrics won’t tell you
The real work and worth of the academy can’t be described by ‘business performance’ metrics and management-speak, argues Tim May
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Arise, Sir Steve: UUK head leads academic honours list
Steve Smith has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours after steering Universities UK through one of the higher education sector’s most turbulent periods.
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Scientists applaud appointment of chief scientific adviser to the Treasury
The Treasury has ended the anomaly of being the only government department to lack a chief scientific adviser.
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On What Matters, Volumes I and II
Constantine Sandis surveys a long-awaited work that aims for the moral-philosophical high ground
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The Mystery of the Prime Numbers: Secrets of Creation, Volume One
Brian Josephson is fascinated by a visualisation of numerals as more than just a counting system
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The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
The outlines of the age of foreign imperialism in China have long been well known: opium wars and unequal treaties; gunboat diplomacy and Christian missionaries; foreign spheres of influence; and the...
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The Future of History
I've never met John Lukacs, but he sounds like the kind of man it would be fun to argue the toss with over a pint or two in the pub. Author of more than 30 books written over six decades, the...
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Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age
Les Gofton considers a worldview of broken dreams and thwarted projects, tempered by hope
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A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages
A few years ago, a colleague offered a new undergraduate module called Food and Eating in the Middle Ages, only to find herself teaching a 30-strong cohort of anorexics, bulimics and assorted food...
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Joining the Resistance
In principle, I enjoy books that mix autobiographical reflections with theory, and here Carol Gilligan offers an articulate musing on human development, morality and sex. But I found the pace rather...
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Fix eyes on education prize
Hertfordshire v-c advises academy not to get distracted by the extras. Sarah Cunnane writes