What's in a name?
It is ironical that a report from the Adam Smith Institute should advocate the abolition of public funding for higher education ("Taxpayer beware: the hidden costs of public funding's helping hand",...
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Poor defence, after the fact
Nick Petford's apologia for the misdeeds of Bournemouth University in the Buckland case cannot go unchallenged (Letters, 11 March).It was the view of the Southampton Employment Tribunal that...
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Thanks for the memories 1
Laurie Taylor's amusing defection from psychology to sociology states that Arthur Summerfield, when head of psychology at Birkbeck, displayed on his desk a stuffed rat, and implies that he was a...
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Thanks for the memories 2
Laurie Taylor's falling in and out of love with behaviourism makes a good story. But his recollection of Birkbeck is rather different to mine. I graduated there in 1961 and stayed for a PhD, getting...
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Ready for the storm?
Lord Mandelson has wielded the axe on university spending, and whichever party wins the general election, further cuts are likely. Using an exclusive analysis of institutions' financial statements by...
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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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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