As a glance at any issue of this magazine shows, higher education is increasingly a global phenomenon. But globalisation poses particular challenges. Put crudely, is higher education to be a means of...
Exposure to Matisse's dancing forms led Peter Hill to a eureka moment: it is art, not science, that truly evokes the future
Anne Hogan finds the Merce Cunningham dancers exude technical prowess but also detects diffidence
Chilled by a Faustian tale, Gary Day finds an analysis of the UK's national debt both alarming and alarmist
OxfordAlfred Bestall: illustrator of Rupert BearAlthough he also worked as a painter and book illustrator, Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) was most famous for his Rupert Bear comic strip in the Daily...
Journey through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the DeadThe British Museum, London, until 6 March 2011The British Museum's superb new exhibition includes many astonishing objects, notably the...
An internationally renowned leader in science education has died.David Malvern was born in Crosby, Merseyside on 20 October 1946 and won a scholarship to Merchant Taylors' School before reading...
An Oxford college has launched a £17 million fundraising campaign for a major expansion that will include the building of two new quadrangles and a bridge link across a city centre street. As part of...
Our university has expressed "deep shock" at this week's announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England that its highly rated degree in Pork Studies will no longer be accredited as...
Your leader, "Time for a return to entry duty?" (4 November), rightly calls upon universities to play a part in shaping A-level qualifications. But let us not be tempted to join the clamour of voices...
I disagree with the somewhat dismissive approach to the views of teachers and subject associations taken in your feature, "Making the A level work a little harder" (4 November).The A level is part of...
The Browne Report looks likely to leave arts and humanities students with twice the level of fees and some academic departments facing closure ("The shape of things to come", 28 October).Given that "...
Universities need to be able to plan in order to deliver high-quality courses. But student choice is likely to be fickle, with income course by course hard to predict from year to year.How will the...
If a review chaired by a distinguished literary publisher and president of the British Academy had recommended that government funding for undergraduate teaching be entirely concentrated on the...
There is one point in the Policy Exchange report on private providers in higher education that must not go unchallenged ("Private firms keen to take Queen's shilling for student support", 4 November...