The Week in Higher Education
The events of 2014 will determine the course of the 21st century, according to a University of Cambridge academic. Nicholas Boyle argues that the previous five centuries have hinged on events, such...
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Sum of universities' fears: cuts of up to a quarter and VAT rise
Sector leaders plan fightback as Osborne unveils emergency Budget. Simon Baker reports
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Maastricht treatise: bleak future for Europe's academy without GDP boost
European societies have been urged to commit 2 per cent of their gross domestic products to higher education as part of the "urgent action" needed to prevent them losing out to the US and Asia.A...
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The 5 per cent savings solution
FEC report calls for efficiencies and offers support for research concentration. John Morgan reports
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Role-playing: two feared dead
"A serious setback for empathy." That was how our Head of Personal Development, Jennifer Doubleday, described the tragic outcome of last Thursday's exercise in campus role-playing.Ms Doubleday told...
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Content before commerce
Merchandising should not dictate children's television, says Sally Feldman
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Research intelligence - What have you been missing?
Researchers now have a tool offering translations of open-access material in nine major languages. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersClaire Chambers is senior lecturer in postcolonial literature, Leeds Metropolitan University. She is reading Ghada Karmi's In Search of Fatima...
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Off Piste - Elixirs of life
If you are a connoisseur of fortified wines, you are likely to be over 50. Enthusiast Aldwyn Cooper has enjoyed expanding his knowledge of the finest wines and can't understand why the young haven't...
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Leader: Discontent is currency for all ages
Reform of the sector's pension scheme may be essential, but no single option will please everyone - not least students
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From Where I Sit: Emerging signs of maturity
Saudi Arabia's higher education leaders are obsessed with world rankings, but are aware that their universities do not compete well, and that rankings have not effectively measured much of what goes...
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Francois Crouzet, 1922-2010
A French historian who devoted much of his career to the story of European industrialisation, the rise of Britain and the parallel decline of France has died.Francois Crouzet was born in the Vienne...
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'Whiners'? No, we are simply doing our job 1
What exactly is "a realistic strategy for the future"? That is the core issue raised by Ann Mroz in last week's leader ("Stop with the gloom and doom", 17 June).She accuses me of "hysteria and...
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'Whiners'? No, we are simply doing our job 2
I read with interest the article on the League of European Research Universities' argument that European Research Council funding should be doubled ("Less red tape, more euros, research alliance...
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Model doesn't stand up
As a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and a professor at two Chinese universities, I was bemused to read Simon Marginson's article on the "Confucian model" of education ("Tigers burning bright...