The iPad and the academy
Tara Brabazon identifies 10 scholarly uses for Apple’s latest gadget, and the new ways of reading, writing, watching and thinking that the platform supports
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What a wizard idea
Study of the social and moral issues raised in the Harry Potter series has great relevance to today’s society, argues Martin Richardson
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Removing an honour
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cumbria’s chair of governors exits in wake of critical report
The University of Cumbria’s chair of governors is to step down later this year after an independent report criticised the “shortcomings” of the troubled institution’s board.Peter Ballard, who was not...
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Imperial’s acting head made permanent
Sir Keith O’Nions has been appointed rector of Imperial College London.The former government adviser has been acting head of the institution since January and will serve as rector until 2013. Sir Roy...
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Court quashes visa rules barring basic-English speakers from language courses
Tougher rules on English-language requirements for foreign students that it was claimed would cost universities £1 billion a year have been quashed by the High Court.Changes brought in by the Labour...
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Forget prestige: science funding is an economic matter
David Willetts today used his first major speech on science policy to emphasise the “overwhelming” economic case for science funding. The universities and science minister said it was “inevitable” in...
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Academy investment ‘absolutely essential’ as foreign rivals up the ante
Claims that there are too many graduates in society and that public money should be taken away from universities are “short-sighted, deceiving and Luddite”, the head of a Scottish university has said...
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Death knell sounds for final-salary pensions as employers’ proposals win casting vote
Final-salary pensions are likely to be abolished for new entrants to the Universities Superannuation Scheme, raising the prospect of national strike action by the University and College Union. At a...
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Super-campus booster
France is using governance reform and investment to push its universities up the league tables. Will it work? asks Paul Benneworth
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Measured, and found wanting more
International comparisons of universities still have their detractors, but the appetite for them continues to grow. Phil Baty traces their roots and looks at how they are increasing in number and...
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Handle with care
League tables occupy the minds of vice-chancellors, politicians, academics and students, but Ellen Hazelkorn advises them not to draw hasty conclusions
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The UK plc roadshow
Shadowing the speed-dating expats who recruit for British universities, Caroline Knowles finds that their hypermobile lives parallel those of the students they pursue
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Book of the week: When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China will Save Mankind - or Destroy it
Kerry Brown on a sobering snapshot of a ravenous giant whose new prosperity could bring global tragedy
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The Secret World of Doing Nothing
Fred Inglis searches for insights but ends up bored by personal accounts of the absence of activity