Get students to stump up or we face £1bn hole, say elite
Russell Group tells Browne review more money from undergraduates is only way to stave off crunch. Simon Baker reports
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‘Two brains’ takes charge as Lib Dems take flak
David Willetts to oversee the academy as Tories’ coalition partners come under fire over tuition-fee opt-out. Simon Baker reports
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Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
Jane O'Grady remains unconvinced by an attempt to initiate a new branch of philosophy
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Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University under Occupation
Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University under OccupationBy Gabi Baramki (with a foreword by Jimmy Carter) Pluto Press 232pp, £60.00 and £17.99ISBN 9780745329321 and 29314Published 1...
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The Canon: Boys will be Boys
Boys will be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et alBy Ernest Sackville TurnerPopular literature is a dangerous commodity. When I began my...
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Justice and Health Care: Selected Essays
Deborah Bowman hails a remarkable synthesis of bioethics, philosophy and practical insights
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Other Voices: Hidden Histories of Liverpool's Popular Music Scenes, 1930s-1970s
Liverpool as a place of music culture and a space of myth creation through the virtual sanctification of its most popularly significant band, the Beatles, has been the subject of many journalistic...
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Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre
Great plays ... tend to locate themselves at moments of severe transition, disintegration or dismantlement, when the overlap or interfaces between the individual and society and history are in flux...
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THE Book of the Week: The Last Tortoise: A Tale of Extinction in our Lifetime
Eleanor Sterling discusses a species' rapid decline at our hands ... and what we can do about it
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and PoliticsEdited by Michael Goddard, lecturer in media studies, and Benjamin Halligan, director of the Graduate School, both at the University...
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Odds and quads
When the University of Ulster recently started to offer pharmacy courses, it decided to assemble and exhibit a collection of antique medicines and implements.
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Gods in the machines to usher in new age of leisure
James Martin believes his 21st Century School can tackle future issues today, writes Melanie Newman
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Overseas briefing
AustraliaFringe benefits of spending boostRaising Australia's higher education spending to the average of the world's leading economies would add 6.1 per cent to the country's gross domestic product...
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US academic leaders sup port open-access bill
Senior academic officers of major US universities have backed a plan for open access to publicly funded research, which they said would "accelerate the advancement of knowledge".A bill has been...
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILJapan Partnering AwardsThis scheme will fund British and Japanese scientists in systems biology as it seeks to foster bilateral relationships. In...