The market charge
Did necessity or ideology drive thinking behind Browne and the CSR, and will unleashing student/consumer demand improve or imperil the sector? Simon Baker investigates
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28 October 2010
The shape of things to come - What will the spending review and the Browne report mean for the academy?
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V-cs set to lose more than 75% of teaching grant, survey reveals
Cuts to government grants for teaching over the next four years will amount to more than 75 per cent for several institutions, according to a survey of vice-chancellors.
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Funding cuts will start before higher fees introduced, Willetts tells MPs
Universities in England should expect some cuts to their funding a year before the revenue from higher tuition fees starts flowing into institutions, David Willetts has told a cross-party group of...
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Just the facts, please
Peer review is being co-opted into the political process, says Sandy Starr, at the cost of impartiality and independence
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Inside Higher Ed: Academic freedom and Holocaust denial
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cameron announces cash to bridge gap between lab and market
More than £200 million will be invested in a network of innovation hubs to improve links between universities and business, David Cameron has announced.
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One-course town with a teaching model the world wants to copy
College of the Atlantic focuses on human ecology and lets students lead the way. Jon Marcus reports
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Caps in the air? No delight from research elite over Willetts’ hint at keeping tuition fees limit
An indication by David Willetts that the government is leaning towards retaining a hard cap on tuition fees has provoked a swift response from the elite research universities, which have lobbied hard...
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University of Dundee to axe 195 jobs
The University of Dundee is to cut up to 195 jobs as part of a “strategic review” of its activities.
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CSR 2010: Two brains, two caps? Fees decision ‘cannot wait’
David Willetts has set out further details of the government’s plans for reforming the academy, announcing that proposals on the future of tuition fees will be submitted to Parliament before...
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CSR 2010: A curate’s egg
The coalition’s qualified support for science recognises that universities are the ‘jewels’ in the UK’s economic crown, argues Paul Clark. But the huge cuts to non-STEM teaching require decisions to...
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China: A Modern History
Kerry Brown on a masterfully concise account of two tumultuous centuries in the life of a giant
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Honeybee Democracy
Swarm behaviour can teach people a lot about collective decision-making, Zachary Huang finds
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History and Neorealism
The academic study of international relations has taken rather different forms in the US and the UK. It is normally classed as a branch of political science in the US, where that discipline is...