Inside Higher Ed: Shifts on Agents
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

The UKās platform for free online university courses has announced its first international members.

The proportion of students entering Russell Group universities who are state-educated has fallen in the last decade, a report from a government commission on social mobility has said.
The University of Liverpool has been accused of āputting a gun to the headā of almost 3,000 staff who a union says face losing their jobs unless they accept altered working terms and conditions

The Queenās Birthday Honours List includes a knighthood for Eric Thomas, the University of Bristol vice-chancellor and Universities UK president

The government should urgently clarify its plans for the sale of the student loan book and reassure existing graduates that their repayments will not be raised, according to Labourās shadow higher...

Science ministers from the G8 group of the worldās richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research.

Students are starting their search for a graduate job earlier than ever, a new survey has revealed.

Download the podcastThis weekās issue review looks at the number of women professors in UK universities, our ever-popular Books section, and the growing number of student complaints against higher...

By whom, and for what reasons, has development throughout the āpoorer nationsā of the global South been thwarted in the post-colonial era? Vijay Prashadās book offers an unambiguous answer to this...

When, before AD77, Pliny the Elder remarked that Palmyra āhad its own fateā between the Roman and Parthian empires, what had been a remote oasis in the Syrian desert a century earlier was becoming a...

Yongjin Zhang considers a meticulous effort to unwrap the riddle inside an Eastern enigma

The argument that the āWar on Terrorā and counter-terrorist measures are a threat to civil liberties is not a new one. In the current climate of austerity, it is not surprising that the enjoyment of...

Craft, in Glenn Adamsonās view, has continuously referred to a process or an activity rather than a discipline on its own. Adamson, head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, has written...

Itās not just hot air: balloons allow our historical imaginations to soar, Robert J. Mayhew discovers