“Not much to celebrate at the moment in Baghdad,” May Witwit emailed Bee Rowlatt on 7 December 2006. “A threat has reached university teachers and students…warning them to stop attending lectures or...
The man in charge of allocating funding to England’s universities has said he would not be “comfortable” living and working in a country that did not provide teaching funding for arts and humanities...
The University of York has been named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards 2010.
Universities should not assume they can all charge high fees and must be careful not to “underestimate” the competition they will face from new providers such as further education colleges, David...
What do a rubbish-collecting recommissioned milk float, “magnetricity” and the bombardier beetle have in common? They have all played a part in helping academics and their universities triumph in the...
Students protesting against plans for higher tuition fees and the abolition of the Education Maintenance Grant have barricaded themselves in the constituency office of the deputy leader of the...
A national programme that aims to widen participation in higher education is to be scrapped.
Roger Morgan salutes a collection of personal memories from a stimulating and original historian
Alex Danchev enjoys the pontifications of a scholar led happily astray from the topic in hand
Financial crisis is a many-headed hydra and unravelling its causes a Herculean task. In The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame?, Howard Davies makes significant progress, presenting a relatively clear...
The back cover of Arguments for Socialism describes Tony Benn as "the most controversial man in British politics". It is hard to think of Benn, now a national treasure, as a divisive figure - but of...
Cameron Macdonald enjoys the ethnographic detail amid tales of cultural ignorance and exploitation
Sean McMeekin's riveting book tells the tale of two dysfunctional undertakings of the First World War. One was the famous, yet incomplete and therefore largely unusable, Baghdad Railway built by...
Hayden White began his career as a historian and ended it as a - what exactly? A linguist? A literary theorist? "Academic intellectual" is the term preferred by Robert Doran in his introduction to...
Les Gofton finds insufficient illumination in this particular bid to 'reorient incivility research'