In an election outcome that surprised both political scientists and the public, Canada’s pro-business Conservative Party has formed a majority government for the first time since 1988.
The head of the Sutton Trust has told a cross-party group of MPs that the government’s higher education reforms are “totally out of line” with the rest of the world.
Tragedies are worms that burrow deep into memories. We carry postcards from our past into the present, but when disaster strikes a city we know well, memories crumple, twist, decay and dissolve.In...
By Libby A. Nelson and Doug Lederman, for Inside Higher Ed
As Canada prepares for its fourth general election in seven years, its university sector is doing its utmost to ensure that higher education is a key priority for the main parties.
Two academics said to have been planning an anti-monarchy mock execution at Westminster Abbey were arrested ahead of the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton in London.
A former higher education minister who is now leading a post-1992 university’s student experience strategy has defended the institution’s decision to charge tuition fees of £9,000 for the 2012-13...
Lynne Segal is appalled by US experiences of the coming of age, but cheered by the hope of change
Too much rhetoric in the coalition's central tenet leaves Vernon Bogdanor worried for the future
This hefty volume, which offers a sweeping portrait of modern Pakistan, is a curious product. Couched in language sometimes reminiscent of the memoirs of a British district administrator under the...
A year ago, this book about the US higher education system might have been of little interest to UK academics, but how quickly things change. In the wake of the UK's recent funding review, the issues...
Harvey Levenstein has sympathy for the diners in the battle of the cuisines in pre-Prohibition US
Since its appearance in the south of France in the 1760s, the mysterious creature known as the Beast of the Gévaudan has been an object of lasting fascination not just for the general public, but for...
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are both well-known film studies scholars who have written extensively on film aesthetics, film history and on the film industry. However, it is as the co-authors...
A tribute to trees and the diverse nature of their impact on our lives is no revelation to Jules Pretty