Another fine mess we must get into
Sir David Watson rates the performance of Cable and Willetts and offers them his vision of the academy’s future – a flexible but united sector providing long-term learning on American lines
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UK and Russia look to the skies to improve life on Earth
The newly formed UK Space Agency has signed an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Bureau, Roscosmos, that promises to boost collaboration on space research between the two countries. The...
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Willetts’ advice for the disappointed legions: don’t follow the ‘Club Med’ model
Students who fail to gain a place at university this year should consider the “range of other options” available, such as apprenticeships and work experience, before deciding to reapply in future,...
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Searching for cash overseas
By Scott Jaschik for Insidehighered
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‘Perverse’ VAT policy will harm libraries and research, Chancellor told
Plans to increase VAT on e-books to 20 per cent will not only affect university libraries but will also inhibit research and learning and the digital economy, the organisation representing the UK and...
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CSI: heart of darkness
The success of forensic science must not blind the discipline to the truths to be gleaned from studying the chaos of criminality, argues Stephen Wade
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University Alliance tells coalition: if you want efficiency, cut the red tape
Reform of university employment contracts, pensions and taxation is needed if the higher education sector is to find efficiency savings in the age of austerity, a mission group report has warned.The...
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Surrey tops graduate employment table, London South Bank languishes at bottom
Graduate employment rates vary widely between universities, according to figures published today.The proportion of graduates who say they are working or studying six months after graduation ranges...
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Cable sets out radical plans for academy’s future
Vince Cable has opened the door to radical changes in the structure and funding of higher education in a landscape of reduced public investment, with potential innovations including bigger graduate...
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The global challenge
As world league tables gain influence they need to reflect the multi-faceted nature of universities’ activities, says Seeram Ramakrishna
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Book of the week: Bottled and Sold
No filter: Mathew White on our readiness to swallow the hype that costs us the Earth
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Sarah Kane in Context
Christopher Innes on the first collection of essays to focus on a single British playwright of the 1990s
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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
We have all heard a story or two about parents who disapprove of their children's choice of spouse. Whether we think of the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or the Draytons in...
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The Canon: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. By Kerby A. Miller
The notion that the Irish were exiles driven out of Ireland by poverty, hardship and English colonialism was hardly new when, in 1985, Kerby Miller's weighty, learned study hit the bookshelves. After...
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Repairing British Politics
Anthony King on a law scholar's ambitious plan to give the UK its own governmental charter at last