Postgrad funding reforms mooted
New ways to fund postgraduate studentships are being considered in an attempt to win more money for science in the next spending review. At present, the number of postgraduate places and the stipends...
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Student debt
Student debt is deterring final-year undergraduates from pursuing postgraduate qualifications, according to a study published by the Office of Science and Technology. The study found that "a...
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Payment stoppages pose legal problems
Ministers' clampdown on salary payments to suspended college managers will create a legal minefield, the Association of Colleges has warned. Following a string of scandals in which suspended college...
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Police training scheme under fire from both sides
Politicians from both sides have criticised the University of Ulster for deciding to validate part of a new training programme for police recruits. The future of policing is at the centre of...
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An unloaded chamber
The Lords have furthered the cause of higher education in the past. Alan Thomson asks whether a diminished upper housecan help in future. The histories of universities and the House of Lords are...
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New economy, new slavery
Disposable People
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Politics in the land of the three Kims
Mass Politics and Culture in Democratising Korea
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Shopping a way of life? I'll buy that
Consumerism
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The extinction of Hydrocarbon Man?
Managing the Opil Wealth - The Carbon War
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Why it was fun to stay at the Y
Take the Young Stranger by the Hand
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a trained architect whose novel is more celebrated than its hero: " The schoolmaster was leaving the...
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The writing's on the disc - but no one can yet read it
The Bronze Age Computer Disc
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Wrenches in the high-tech toolbox
The Golem at Large
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Women tied by jute and more
Women and labour in late Colonial India
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Getting by is all that counts in the village
Gao Village