Daytime TV: Darkness into light
Gary Day gets to grips with the Standard Model of the Universe, which explains everything - or does it?
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18 March 2010
Hurricane approaching - As the financial storm bears down, see who’s got the strength to survive from our analyses of grant allocations and institutional balance sheets
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Muslim students continue street protest over closure of prayer room
Alternative shared accommodation offered but rejected as ‘unacceptable’. Melanie Newman reports
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#loveHE: A little more conversation, a lot more action
The global success of Coventry University’s podcasts shows that there is a huge market for intelligent HE-created content, says John Mair
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Review finds “clear agreement” that top-up fees have not deterred students
Lord Browne’s preliminary findings also indicate that the finance system for part-time students is inadequate. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Dynamic duo raise the temperature at Manchester
Two scientists who discovered graphene are listed among hottest researchers. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Pacific connection boosts partnerships Down Under
Australia and New Zealand see marked growth in research collaborations with China, reports Zoë Corbyn
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‘No science cuts? I’ll throw a party’
Adam Afriyie indicates that Tories would reduce the 2010-11 budget if they come to power. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: Giving the sector the second degree
Tara Brabazon muses on a non-graduate’s resentment at ‘taxpayer-funded’ higher education and the academy’s vision of lifelong ‘learner-earners’ buying social mobility
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Bournemouth head takes the reins at City
Paul Curran hails appointment as ‘unique privilege’. Rebecca Attwood reports
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My eureka moment: Thinking outside the box
Laurie Taylor began his academic career as a devotee of B.F. Skinner, but he escaped the behavioural maze thanks to Noam Chomsky and a tipsy rat
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Comparethemarket.edu
American universities will soon have to be more open about tuition charges and student retention rates. Many fear that the push to provide consumer-oriented information will lead to even greater cuts...
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#loveHE: A big step into the grown-up world
Children have some odd ideas about university and what happens there, but they also have lofty ambitions in which they see higher education playing a key role, as Rebecca Attwood and Sarah Cunnane...
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Book of the week: Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
Katrina Schlunke finds exotic tales of Pacific island encounters to be most revealing
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The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure
An attempt to solve the mystery of a lost Aztec treasure doesn't crack it, says Alan Sandstrom