Low blow ignores evidence
David Willetts has announced that Aimhigher is to be abolished ("Black spots loom as Aimhigher shuts", 2 December). It isn't clear why this decision has been made, as the minister said he recognises...
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Heavily subsidised system
John Field has proposed that Scottish academics should accept voluntary pay freezes to "help shore up the sector's finances" ("Seeking volunteers: scholars urged to take pay freeze to aid Scottish...
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'Tricks' are not treats
As a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, I was very disappointed to see Martin Griffiths, national coordinator for science journalism training at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), excuse the...
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Do dilly-dally (not for pay)
Recently, in an effort to procrastinate my way around a pile of university administration, I wrote three theatre reviews. The first was of the National Theatre's current production of Hamlet (1,800...
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Appetite for education
A soaring enrolment rate and a driving ambition to compete globally characterise higher education in South Korea. But how is this all-consuming desire affecting society? asks John Morgan
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Reversing into trouble
Mill, Smith and Friedman: look away now. Coalition plans to marketise the academy are a corruption of laissez-faire ideology. Martin Cohen lambasts a liberal approach to 'liberalism'
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Film review: 127 Hours
Duncan Wu applauds a nightmarish tale of a rock climber caught for five long days in a very hard place
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9 December 2010
Doorway to the world - With a fervour for knowledge, South Korea aims to take its place on the global stage
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Getting their Babel on
By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed
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Getting their Babel on
By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed
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How blameless are we?
Although higher education has not been named a culprit in Ireland’s crisis, Anto Kerins thinks some serious soul-searching is in order
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Safety in numbers? Lib Dem ministers to vote for fees hike
All Liberal Democrat ministers will vote in favour of the rise in tuition fees, but a number of backbenchers are likely to revolt.
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Draft guidance indicates coalition will break vow to beef up access commitments
The government’s promise to strengthen measures to protect access to universities if the cap on fees rises to £9,000 has been broken, it has been claimed.
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All change: global education sector meets in Doha to look to the future
More than 1,200 people working in the global education sector have descended upon Doha, in Qatar, for the second annual World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE).
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Officials failed to act on SLC problems, MPs find
A cross-party committee of MPs has criticised officials for failing to take prompt action to address problems with the Student Loans Company that left thousands of students without financial support.