Public-private balance
There is clear concern in the views expressed by Lord Baker ("The Queen's shilling is no sovereign remedy for a world-class sector", 9 September). Universities need both state support and autonomy:...
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Break this cosy cartel
It is hard to understand what Paul Benneworth thinks a functioning higher education market should look like ("Higher fees could be the undoing of England's universities", 2 September). He clearly...
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Stakhanov lives
My highly esteemed, Stakhanovite but far too modest colleague Adrian Furnham fails to point out that his production in 2009 of 30 papers and three books represents one of his lean years ("For love or...
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Fantastic voyager
Sir Terry Pratchett is one of the world's most successful authors. He talks to John Gilbey about auto-didacticism, the tyranny of higher education and whether writers are born, not made
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16 September 2010
World University Rankings - The long-awaited 2010-2011 rankings
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Vox populi: nine out of 10 Brits think academy should escape cuts
The British public believes the government should preserve funding for universities despite its efforts to slash the nation’s budget deficit, according to a national opinion poll.
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Inside Higher Ed: Women lead in doctorates
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Union leader fires broadside over higher education cuts
The government is ignoring the “lessons of history” by planning huge cuts to the higher education budget, the leader of the UK’s main lecturers’ union will warn today.
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Turn university careers services into recruitment consultants, urges think-tank
A think-tank has called for an overhaul of university careers services
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A false economy? Canada counts costs of downsizing decade
A cap on hiring full-time staff is now taking its toll on institutions and students. Sarah Cunnane writes
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Willetts: end in sight for fees uncertainty
Charges for university tuition should be increased to sustain investment in higher education and could be announced by next summer, David Willetts said today.
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Book of the Week: Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
Katharine Reeve is gripped by a chapter-and-verse account of the industry at the heart of intellectual culture
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Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America
Joyce Shaw Peterson applauds a sensitive study into the ever-changing ideology of maternalism
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
In 2007, researchers at London's Natural History Museum went into their archives to see if anything in their holdings would be relevant to projects commemorating the 200th anniversary of the...
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The Canon: The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
In the early 1970s, I spent some time trying to persuade low-income working-class families in a small Yorkshire town to claim the recently introduced rent benefits.Perhaps it's not surprising that a...