One rule for all applicants
The Sunday Times' claim, repeated in Times Higher Education, that "a reporter posing as a Russian applicant was told by universities including ... Leicester ... that she could get a place with A-...
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Data, but no context
Some 40 years after the publication of E.P. Thompson's book Warwick University Limited, you report on a new survey in which the majority of respondents at UK universities agreed fairly strongly or...
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To every page, turn, turn, turn
Dale Salwak laments the decline of deep reading under the baleful influence of the online age, and rallies to the defence of the love of learning, the sequestered nooks and the sweet serenity of books
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Art on its own account
John Haldane muses on artist David Tremlett's ability to take on a space and transform it into something living, in a compelling affirmation of the essential domesticity of the creative act
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We can work it out
As graduates struggle to find employment, universities are having to think more creatively about how to prepare them for the workplace, says Rebecca Attwood
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2 September 2010
Graduate take-off - Are universities doing enough to make students employable?
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Overseas first for Imperial
Imperial College London is to launch its first course overseas at a new medical school developed with a university in Singapore.The school, which is due to open in 2013, will award joint Imperial and...
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Inside Higher Ed: Betting on bling
By Jack Stripling, for Inside Higher Ed
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Chemistry researchers believe they are denied the credit they deserve
Half of the academic chemists who responded to a survey felt they had not always received enough credit for their contributions to papers, according to a study. Jeffrey Seeman, visiting senior...
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Local ‘backlash’ and overseas fears strike at Australian sector
Recruitment abroad slows amid visa changes and anti-immigration rhetoric. Simon Baker reports
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After seven years of decline, participation rate in Scotland rises
University and college participation in Scotland is on the rise after seven years of decline.
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Book of the Week: 44 Letters from the Liquid Modern World
Les Gofton hitches a very enjoyable ride with a silver surfer heading towards the future
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Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up
Steven Yearley is beguiled by smart and provocative essays that herald the arrival of profound change
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Hitch-22: A Memoir
This book has been reviewed absolutely everywhere; mostly, it seems, by Pharisees at pains to express their gratitude that they in no way resemble the great Christopher Hitchens. Indeed, The Guardian...
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The Canon: Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life by Philippe Ariès
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Philippe Ariès' L'Enfant et la Vie Familiale sous l'Ancien Régime, translated into English two years later by Robert Baldick as Centuries of...