Reality checks
Academics have long been criticised for being out of touch with the real world. Matthew Reisz finds that many make great efforts to dispel ivory tower attitudes, but others believe such habits will...
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Film review: The Next Three Days
Duncan Wu suspends his disbelief to enjoy Russell Crowe as a gun-toting, all-action college teacher
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TV review: Wing and a prayer
The butterfly encourages people's imagination to take flight, says Gary Day, but are its days numbered?
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23 December 2010
Back in vogue - Is liberal arts study the ideal education for the 21st century?
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Sutton Trust: keep Offa independent and boost its powers
The university access watchdog must remain an independent body and should be given “real teeth”, according to an influential education charity.
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Scottish teaching grant is decimated
Scottish universities will have their teaching grant cut by about 10 per cent next year, following a decision to reduce funding while maintaining student numbers.
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Inside Higher Ed: He won’t censor himself
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Grant letter reveals extent of cuts
Teaching funding for universities is to fall by 6 per cent in cash terms from £4.9 billion to £4.6 billion next year, and the government is planning a cut of 23 per cent the following year when...
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Opposing sides of Venezuela’s academy clash over policy and budgets
Venezuelan higher education is in a state of upheaval, with protests highlighting uncertainty over the future of its “autonomous” (traditional public) universities.
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Southwest union rises to Welsh minister’s challenges
Two universities have agreed in principle to merge and create a single institution for southwest Wales.
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SNP: state should shoulder funding burden, but need not go it alone
Scotland’s government believes that the state should retain “primary responsibility” for funding higher education, but could still introduce a graduate tax.
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The Lab: Creativity and Culture
Graham Farmelo is intrigued by an account of the explosion in ideas when art meets science
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Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev's Dancers and Paris Fashion
The interplay between dance and fashion offers Anne Hogan fresh insights into the avant-garde
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The Fable of the World: A Philosophical Enquiry into Freedom in our Times
Opinions differ on whether the historical lineage of the idea of European unification is essentially pacifist (as in the writings of the Quaker William Penn), fascist (Hitler's European New Order...
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Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
Although it appears in the 400th year after the publication of Galileo's first telescopic treatise, David Wootton's intriguing portrait of that icon of early modern science acts as a corrective to...