The University of Cumbria’s chair of governors is to step down later this year after an independent report criticised the “shortcomings” of the troubled institution’s board.Peter Ballard, who was not...
Sir Keith O’Nions has been appointed rector of Imperial College London.The former government adviser has been acting head of the institution since January and will serve as rector until 2013. Sir Roy...
Tougher rules on English-language requirements for foreign students that it was claimed would cost universities £1 billion a year have been quashed by the High Court.Changes brought in by the Labour...
David Willetts today used his first major speech on science policy to emphasise the “overwhelming” economic case for science funding. The universities and science minister said it was “inevitable” in...
Claims that there are too many graduates in society and that public money should be taken away from universities are “short-sighted, deceiving and Luddite”, the head of a Scottish university has said...
Final-salary pensions are likely to be abolished for new entrants to the Universities Superannuation Scheme, raising the prospect of national strike action by the University and College Union. At a...
France is using governance reform and investment to push its universities up the league tables. Will it work? asks Paul Benneworth
Kerry Brown on a sobering snapshot of a ravenous giant whose new prosperity could bring global tragedy
Fred Inglis searches for insights but ends up bored by personal accounts of the absence of activity
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century. By Sheila Rowbotham. Verso, 312pp, £17.99. ISBN 9781844676132. Published 3 May 2010For 30 years, Sheila Rowbotham has been at the...
When A Biographical Dictionary of Film was first published in 1975, critical reaction ranged from delight to outrage, often within the same review. Describing it in Sight and Sound as "the sort of...
Steve Redhead on an uneasy mix of gaming-culture study and European academic discourse
"The People in between/Looked underdone and harassed/And out of place and mean,/And horribly embarrassed." Lawrence Napper doesn't actually quote Hilaire Belloc's poem The Garden Party. But he well...
It is said that you can't judge a book by its cover, and for many who pick up Stephen Neff's Justice in Blue and Gray, that axiom will be challenged. With its blue-gray metallic background and its...
Stewart Mottram delights in Shakespearean scholarship that finally gives Wales its due