Tour of beauty
Artist Rooms enlightens places other exhibitions do not reach. Alex Danchev lauds Anthony d'Offay's efforts to bring art to all
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From where I sit - When it's who, not what, you know
When professors Rao Yi and Shi Yigong claimed in a recent issue of Science that cronyism was blighting China's research culture, a spokesman for the Ministry of Science and Technology was quick to...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: A time for giving and for healing
Fees reform has divided the academy, but the sector can agree on something: it deserves support, including donations
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Wise words: nations must play the long game
Global summit hears that public spending on academy should not be cut. Sarah Cunnane reports from Doha
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Hold the anglophone? Korean director warns of lingua franca's local impact
The fashion for degree courses taught in English rather than local languages may be putting teaching quality at risk, a global higher education conference has heard.Speaking at the World Innovation...
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Size matters to students' grades
Research indicates that packed classes reduce academic attainment. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Submission fees could pave way to open-access future
Defray scholarly journals' peer-review costs with per-paper charge, study advises. Paul Jump writes
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Cash advance: Imperial to back others' spin-offs
The commercialisation arm of Imperial College London is to provide financial backing to entrepreneurial academics from other leading institutions.Imperial Innovations, which is a publicly listed...
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Looking beyond the pain principle
Dose of equality prescribed for 'masochistic' age of debt, UEL symposium hears. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in Brief
InternationalisationSpanning the globe by degreesMore than 1,600 organisations around the world offer UK higher education awards, a study has found. While 157 universities and other institutions in...
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Publish or be damned
Pressure to have research accepted by the 'right' journals in order to get on damages scholarship, warns Dennis Tourish
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Taking a leap in the dark with a radical experiment on funding
Now the fee rise seems certain, Peter Scott scrutinises the effects of the marketisation of higher education on supply and demand
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Disquiet grows over motives behind pension overhaul
Employers' forum raised possibility of slashing contributions to 10 per cent. John Morgan reports
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Disquiet grows over motives behind pension overhaul
Employers' forum raised possibility of slashing contributions to 10 per cent. John Morgan reports