Scottish teaching grant is decimated
Scottish universities will have their teaching grant cut by about 10 per cent next year, following a decision to reduce funding while maintaining student numbers.
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Inside Higher Ed: He won’t censor himself
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Grant letter reveals extent of cuts
Teaching funding for universities is to fall by 6 per cent in cash terms from £4.9 billion to £4.6 billion next year, and the government is planning a cut of 23 per cent the following year when...
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Opposing sides of Venezuela’s academy clash over policy and budgets
Venezuelan higher education is in a state of upheaval, with protests highlighting uncertainty over the future of its “autonomous” (traditional public) universities.
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Southwest union rises to Welsh minister’s challenges
Two universities have agreed in principle to merge and create a single institution for southwest Wales.
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SNP: state should shoulder funding burden, but need not go it alone
Scotland’s government believes that the state should retain “primary responsibility” for funding higher education, but could still introduce a graduate tax.
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Giving cause for hope
As public funding shrinks, fundraising becomes crucial for universities. Adrian Beney examines how UK institutions are approaching the challenge and what they can learn from US methods
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Knowing when to say no
What is the source of this money? Will we offend anyone if we accept it? Have any laws been broken? Hannah Fearn surveys the ethical minefield of fundraising
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Drop out and innovate
The man who financed Facebook is offering 20 two-year $100,000 fellowships to teenagers with big ideas - as long as they leave university. Jon Marcus reports
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The Lab: Creativity and Culture
Graham Farmelo is intrigued by an account of the explosion in ideas when art meets science
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Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev's Dancers and Paris Fashion
The interplay between dance and fashion offers Anne Hogan fresh insights into the avant-garde
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The Fable of the World: A Philosophical Enquiry into Freedom in our Times
Opinions differ on whether the historical lineage of the idea of European unification is essentially pacifist (as in the writings of the Quaker William Penn), fascist (Hitler's European New Order...
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Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
Although it appears in the 400th year after the publication of Galileo's first telescopic treatise, David Wootton's intriguing portrait of that icon of early modern science acts as a corrective to...
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Higher Education and the Market
Miriam E. David assesses a sober appraisal of how global pressures are affecting higher education
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Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred
In his alternately engaging and exasperating new book, philosopher and historian of religion Jeffrey Kripal attempts to recover a history of "thinking off the page" through the work of four...