Through all the talk of learning outcomes, summative and formative assessment, quality assurance and global rankings, a silent fear hangs in the air of lecture theatres, tutorial rooms and...
Controversial measures to restrict student visas have been announced by the government.
Students in Scotland have proposed measures to address a potential funding gap between Scottish and English universities. By James Titcomb
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
London Metropolitan University is to charge under £6,000 a year for many courses in 2012, bucking the trend set by other institutions that have rushed to charge £9,000 a year.
Charitable income to higher education has dropped as the full effects of the economic downturn on university fundraising become clear.
Boundaries between national educational, professional and technical labour markets in Europe are becoming more permeable, according to Kate Purcell of the University of Warwick’s Institute for...
The University of Surrey has become the latest English higher education institution to propose setting an undergraduate tuition fee of £9,000 a year for 2012-13.
The London School of Economics has appointed an interim director following the resignation of Sir Howard Davies over the school’s links with the Libyan regime.
Keele University is planning to shut down its philosophy department, a move critics describe as an “emblematic loss” that would damage the institution’s credibility.
Deborah Longworth looks behind the Facade at the private life of a writer whose words mattered
Forget Stephen Hawking's Brief History: this mind-blowing book is the real deal, Tara Shears enthuses
No one is more knowledgeable about the novel than Christoph Bode. You want to know how novels begin? Ask Bode. You want to know how they end? Ask him. You want to know what happens in the middle?...
The half-century following the Second World War, an era we know as the Cold War, is commonly seen as a period of stability compared with the confused state of the world today. It was a time when...
William Poole evaluates a lively account of the celebrated siblings who did much to map the skies