Fairness and loans
The feature "Red alert" ( September) considered the financial model underpinning the new tuition fees regime but questions must also be asked about "fairness" and the political sustainability of the...
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Keep that door open (1 of 2)
An Ipsos MORI poll published earlier this week showing that children from single-parent families are nearly three times as likely to say that their family could not afford for them to enter higher...
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Keep that door open (2 of 2)
The government's higher education policy is looking increasingly threadbare. In July the myth that trebling tuition fees would have little impact on applications to university was exploded when...
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Right Hear, right now
Universities UK and GuildHE have just published the final report of a steering group overseeing the development of the Higher Education Achievement Report (Hear), an electronic document that provides...
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Syrian scholars need help
The crisis in Syria has created an academic emergency, with the breakdown of higher education within the country and major obstacles facing Syrian scholars and students.In response, the Institute of...
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Revealed: for whom the bill tolls
The West’s elite institutions are paying the price for state funding cuts, our World University Rankings show
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Research intelligence - Shock troops check 'poor' GM study
Science Media Centre's rapid rollout of experts' views sway most media. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• Students arriving for their first day at A.C. Grayling's New College of the Humanities had to brave a mob of protesters, The Independent reported on 25 September. About 30 demonstrators gathered...
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From Where I Sit - Take and give
I have been back in Sydney this past month for the first time in seven years. One of the few non-family things I did was to visit the University of Sydney and call into its development office. It was...
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Odds and quads
These robots form part of the ALIZ-E project designed "to move human-robot interaction from the range of minutes to the range of days".
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Appointments
University of OxfordDouglas HiggsThe new director of the Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) at the University of Oxford has called it an honour to be chosen to...
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I'm an academic and I want to be proud of it
There was never a golden age in which academic values such as universalism and disinterestedness were not at risk, argues Bruce Macfarlane. But in an age of sponsorism and insecurity, all scholars...
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4 October 2012
World University Rankings 2012-13
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Frankenweenie
Animated films aren’t just for children, argues James Clarke. They’re lyrical metaphors for the richness of human existence