Bloomsbury institutions enter 'strategic partnership'
Two leading London higher education institutions have entered a partnership to share resources and develop expertise in education and the social sciences.
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Blomfield backs calls for a graduate tax
A Labour backbencher has called on the party to adopt a graduate tax as its official policy for higher education funding, highlighting support from the party's most senior figures.
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Inside Higher Ed: Spotlighting hate
By Alexandra Tilsley, for Inside Higher Ed
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Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95
Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most readable and wide-ranging historians of his generation, has died, his family have announced.
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World University Rankings 2011-12 methodology
 Phil Baty describes the methodological refinements that have made the 2011-12 rankings even more accurate and comprehensive No project that seeks to reduce the amazing variety of university...
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Labour 'could go further' than £6,000 cap, says Mahmood
Labour could lower tuition fees below the party's current proposals for a £6,000 threshold if it takes power in the next general election, shadow higher education minister Shabana Mahmood has...
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Economy needs '10,000 extra science graduates'
The UK needs to educate at least an extra 10,000 science graduates a year just to maintain its current industrial position, a major new report has concluded.
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Chemistry teachers encouraged with new scholarships
The Department for Education has announced the creation of around 130 new scholarships in chemistry to attract graduates into teaching the subject.
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Women's Library moves across town to the LSE
A renowned collection of women's history resources is moving to the London School of Economics.
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Poll suggests fear of debt is deterring poorest applicants
Fear of debt may be deterring large numbers of children from applying to university, a new study has suggested.
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Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick
Takis Pappas applauds this skilfully interwoven story of Greece's most controversial prime minister
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Shelley and Vitality
Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of those dead, white, male Romantic poets, has had a wonderfully shifting reputation. Since his death in 1822, Shelley has been an angel, a devil, a radical, an idealist, a...
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Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Women's Oriental Travelogues, 1850-1950
How identity is constructed and performed has recently become a key concern in both gender and post-colonial studies. Travelling in Different Skins explores this interesting issue by focusing on the...
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Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power
Long-term misery caused by problematic maternal behaviour gives Janine Spencer pause for thought
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Beauty and the Beast
You read this book agog, as a Colombian "cosmic surgeon" - in Michael Taussig's words - presents breast implants for inspection: the 350cc Colombian megaboob weighs in alongside the 80cc Brazilian...