The president of Universities UK has told vice-chancellors to expect cuts of £4.2 billion in the government’s spending review – and warned that a huge funding gap is a “terrible danger”.
Students from poor backgrounds will receive help to attend university as part of a wider £7 billion “fairness premium” announced today by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister.
Social media allow users to share information about themselves and their interests. Sarah Cunnane examines their role in the academy
Most Facebook users have not, as is often charged, lost their sense of appropriate behaviour; rather, the site has relaxed some social rules, argues Kathleen Richardson
Hester Vaizey hails a vivid portrayal of the queens who thwarted the constraints on their sex
A chilling look at our possible destiny indicates the limits of human adaptability, says Barry Brook
Few moments in 20th-century American popular music have been quite so maligned as the disco years. They are inevitably characterised as a tasteless age defined by testosterone-charged men strutting...
My relationship with How War Came began in 1989. I was a wide-eyed history postgraduate at the University of Toronto. I enrolled in a course on the causes of the Second World War and our tutor told...
Robert Eaglestone applauds an important but rather obscure interpretation of Derrida's work
If you have spent your life wondering how to understand one of the most counter-intuitive branches of science without going near the heavy mathematics, then this book may be for you. Armed with an...
This is a long-overdue comprehensive analysis of the work of institutional economist and political commentator, Karl Polanyi. Gareth Dale's book strikes a helpful balance between, on the one hand, a...
Paul Gauguin is the subject of a major international exhibition. Alex Danchev considers the Conradian life of the artist, his restlessness, his knack for self-publicity, his carefully crafted 'savage...
Musical-loathing Duncan Wu is won over by the bright-hued cheek of an Aboriginal song and dance
Old flames quaff too much Chianti over lunch, says Gary Day, while a copycat killer stalks the East End
BirminghamCardinal John Henry NewmanCardinal Newman (1801-90), who was beatified on 19 September by Pope Benedict XVI, had close connections with the city of Birmingham, where he founded the Oratory...