Shrinking job market sees nearly 70 applicants vie for every graduate job
The graduate job market is tougher than ever, with a new report suggesting that 69 graduates will compete for every position this year.
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Taking liberties in so-called civil Canada
Robert Diab and W. Wesley Pue argue that the violence at the recent G20 meetings in Toronto highlight the inadequacy of public-order policy by the Mounties
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Disciplinary proceedings halted in ‘fruitbatgate’ case
University College Cork has been forced to halt disciplinary proceedings against the academic at the centre of the so-called “fruitbatgate” row after the Irish High Court agreed to consider the case....
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Graduate unemployment up 25 per cent: women fare better than men
Unemployment among graduates has jumped 25 per cent in a year and is worse among men than women, a report has found.Analysis by the Higher Education Policy Institute of the most recent data available...
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Hefce boss is among best-paid mandarins, Cabinet Office shows
Higher education in England is overseen by one of the highest-earning mandarins in the country, according to new government figures.The £230,000-£234,999 salary enjoyed in 2009-10 by Sir Alan...
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Welsh v-c plans departure, as Gloucestershire appoints new top man
The vice-chancellor of Aberystwyth University is to step down at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.Noel Lloyd, who has held the post since 2004, announced his intention to retire at a meeting of...
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Together, we’re better
Attracting top international students is part of Israel’s renewed commitment to cooperation and excellence, explains Joseph Klafter
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Shakespeare Only
Like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, the author is no more. Literary texts, we are assured, come into being as a patchwork of cultural fragments, quotations and half-quotations and...
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No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4' 33"
David Revill finds much of value in an examination of one of the best-misunderstood works of our time
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Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement
Given that today the majority of British women (and men) support feminist demands such as equal access to higher education, the right to contraception, abortion on demand and equal pay, what is it...
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Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979
How could jihadi violence break out in a country seen as the historical heartland of Islam and ruled by a state that boasts about its many Islamic credentials? Here, Thomas Hegghammer unpacks the...
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGNFado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the CityBy Richard Elliott, teacher, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN...
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Book of the week: Whistling Vivaldi And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
Richard Crisp is inspired by this journey into 'stereotype threat' and the power we have to rise above its constraints
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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution
Katrina Honeyman on a revealing study of the stories of young workers in industrialising Britain
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Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe
Human trafficking, along with other forms of criminal and institutionalised exploitation of politically and economically disadvantaged people, is among the most pressing and horrific problems of our...