Fundraising: strive for an alumni love pact
Report says universities must turn alumni into long-term 'life partners'. Hannah Fearn reports
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Shorter KTPs aim for 'quick wins' for all sides
A shorter and, it is hoped, more palatable version of knowledge- transfer partnerships (KTPs) has been launched in a bid to get more businesses and academics involved.The KTP programme was launched...
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20 August 2009
Admissions of failure - How a generation of students has been sold short
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Part-time students deserve cash injection, says think-tank
Report calls for £33 million to be diverted from the University Challenge fund to support the group, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Could do better
Half of all students who train to be teachers actually go on to teach. Melanie Newman reports
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Gloria Monday: Don’t look now…
If you want to stay abreast of what’s happening in the holidays, Gloria Monday’s advice is not to leave the building
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Unite rejects 0.5 per cent pay offer
Ucea must meet the union within seven days to seek a resolution. Melanie Newman reports
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A threat to scientific communication
Do academic journals pose a threat to the advancement of science? Zoë Corbyn finds out
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Degrees of freedom
College-based higher education is enjoying high student demand for the support and employer links its offers. But as it grows and evolves, there are questions about strategy - and even what to call...
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The King and I
Christine King, a lifelong Elvis devotee, takes us on an autobiographical journey signposted by the songs and life story of the rock'n'roll icon
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Book of the week: The New British Constitution
Anthony King watches Britain inching towards a new constitution
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Juke Box Britain
Andrew Blake discovers that the UK had its own distinctive youth culture before rock'n'roll arrived
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The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order
The Liberal Project is unique in its contextualisation of the global human rights regime in "an evolving international society of sovereign states", a society itself underpinned by liberal...
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The Canon. Childhood Psychosis: Initial Studies and New Insights. By Leo Kanner
On my first day at the university library, I found this collection of the papers of Leo Kanner. I have never let it go. Kanner, Austrian by birth, was appointed in 1930 as the first head of an...
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The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
Johan Franzén is disturbed by America's failure to protect Iraq's historical artefacts during the war