Sector’s funding quangos under scrutiny
Mandelson announces review to cut ‘overlapping bureaucracies and duplicated programmes’.
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“Bigwig” ushered “nonsense” paper into top journal, say scientists
An article claiming caterpillars and butterflies evolved separately has attracted widespread criticism, writes Zoë Corbyn
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Leeds Met expenses probe 'exonerates' Lee
KPMG finds no evidence of wrongdoing, but discovers cases of non-compliant practice among management. Melanie Newman reports
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Reading plans restructure
Institution may create three overarching faculties to concentrate strengths and cut costs. Hannah Fearn reports
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Lammy demands ‘further and faster’ progress towards economic impact
Higher Education Minister also tells UUK conference that sector must bring in more private cash. Phil Baty reports
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Book of the week: Teaching What You Don't Know
Leslie Gofton on advice for neophytes in the lecture-theatre spotlight
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When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World
Gregory Kent says an important study on the growing power of modern China is incomplete
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Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
With this witty and polemical book, Terry Eagleton finally fulfils the promise of his early years as a left-wing Catholic. Here at last is his defence of Christianity as a radical movement comparable...
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The Canon: Speculum of the Other Woman. By Luce Irigaray
When the weekly series The Canon began in April 2009, the question was posed: is there a "baggy monster" of a book that has opened up new ways of thinking and come to count as a classic in your...
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My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture
A look at copyright crime from the student point of view is a refreshing change, says Kim Louise Walden
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Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
We all have one or two of them, or at least most of us do - books that made us readers, if not bibliophiles. Some are books to be proclaimed proudly in conversation - Hans Christian Andersen's...
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Postfemininities in Popular Culture
We discover how old we are when the people we read in our youth are rediscovered by a subsequent generation. The renewed interest in figures such as Shulamith Firestone and Kate Millett is a theme of...
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A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - The Men and Women Who Fought For Our Freedoms
A.W. Purdue enjoys this well-told tale, but isn't convinced that riots brought about social change
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingGEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES- ? The Handbook of Sustainability LiteracyEdited by Arran Stibbe, senior lecturer in the department of humanities, University of...
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'You want jobsworths? Then pay us what the job's worth'
Liverpool Hope's nine-to-five plans prompt debate about academics' working lives, writes Ciaran Jones