Slippery slope
As a retired academic, I was amused to read this notice posted on the icy road running through the university near my house today:One is reminded yet again that in most disciplines - and certainly in...
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TV review: Homeland
Does the award-winning Homeland break new ground, asks Matt Hills, or is it full of familiar themes?
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Ian King, 1954-2012
Over the past 30 years, whenever there was an important decision to be made in the UK student movement, Ian King almost certainly played some role in it.Born on 20 June 1954, Mr King studied at the...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of BrightonOn the roadSeven councils in the South East of England have teamed up with a university to launch the UK's first degree course for those seeking jobs in highways departments....
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16 February 2012
Don’t let the party end - How to keep first-years engaged after the freshers’ festivities
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Community organiser: Obama pledges funding for local colleges
The US Department of Education has emerged as one of the winners in Barack Obama’s 2013 budget request, with a 2.5 per cent increase in funding and promises of support for community colleges.
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World Reputation Rankings launch date revealed
The 2012 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings will be published on 15 March.
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Ebdon to get Offa job
Les Ebdon will be appointed as the next director of the Office for Fair Access after it emerged that the prime minister has no powers to block the decision of Vince Cable, the business secretary, to...
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Go-getters don’t have to go home: government tweaks student visas
Graduates entrepreneurs with “world-class innovative ideas” will be allowed to remain in the UK beyond their university studies, as the government responds to criticisms of its new visa regime for...
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Inside Higher Ed: WTF, Arizona
By Mitch Smith, for Inside Higher Ed
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Post-92 academics to vote on pensions strike
University and College Union members in newer universities will be given a “consultative ballot” on whether to reject the government’s latest pensions offer and strike again.
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Warwick v-c to chair new commission on future of sector
Leading figures from higher education in the UK and US have agreed to serve on a major new independent commission looking at the future of the sector in England.
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The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
Sarah Toulalan lauds a look at how carnal crime and punishment gave way to a stress on private consent
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Travels in China
Impressions of an 'unknowable' China at the end of the Cultural Revolution fascinate Kerry Brown