“Salami-slicing” the research budget is preferable to making “extremely dangerous” decisions to cease funding whole areas of research, according to physicist Brian Cox.
The government is to slash the number of foreign students studying in the UK, as well as reducing the number of visas for highly skilled workers by a fifth.New visa restrictions were outlined today...
By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed
Fears are growing about the effects of a sharp reduction in immigration on universities as the government prepares to announce cuts to student visas.The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is this week...
A chief architect of the regulatory reform proposed to guarantee the quality of higher education in Australia has assured the heads of the country’s elite universities that they will not be buried in...
A row between scientists and the government has been avoided after the director general for science and research, Adrian Smith, was confirmed in an expanded Whitehall role that also includes higher...
From the role of students as catalysts for economic growth, to the social and cultural benefits of universities’ public exhibitions, findings have been revealed from the biggest-ever study of the...
The government must make clear its wider plans for universities before asking Parliament to vote for a higher tuition fee cap, the shadow business secretary has said.
In May 1968 the old order was upturned by marginalised contract lecturers. Today, the proliferation of online courses offers slow-track academics a similar opportunity to seize the scholarly high...
In the academy, the real argument over science and religion is not about God but rather about how social and natural scientists understand people. Martin A. Mills says we must bridge that gap to...
Some academics think the authors of historical fiction peddle myths, exploit their labour and wallow in sentimentality. But could dialogue between the two play a role in promoting public...
Gary T. Marx enjoys a trip down the information byways of everyday life that we like to keep hidden
Susan Fainstein's book is the result of some 20 years of intense research and thinking on the subject of the "just city", and it seems likely to me to become something of a classic. It provides an...
I was a master's student in sociology when I first read Julia Lawton's powerful account of her ethnographic study of a hospice. In The Dying Process, she detailed her observations of residents'...
Michelle Baddeley reads a 'fantastic' account of how our collective mood can influence the world