The week in higher education
• Tributes from across the sector have been paid to Mike Baker, the former BBC education correspondent, who died this week. David Willetts, the universities and science minister, described him in a...
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Leader: Things can only get worse
Budget forecasts suggest that higher education is still at risk from a government needing to find further savings
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From Where I Sit - Personal married to the political
Political scientists are often sniffy about the role of the individual in politics and policymaking. But time and again, in studying what happens behind the scenes in European higher education...
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Off Piste - Is it really so strange?
A young Nick Hillman chose Manchester less for the university’s eminent historians than for the city’s glorious music scene - and despite the latter’s loathing for his Conservative heroine
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Odds and quads
These are among the 400 Japanese stencils (katagami) acquired by the Silver Studio, one of the UK's most influential design houses, in the late 19th century.
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Appointments
Monash/University of WarwickAndrew CoatsThe new academic alliance between Monash University and the University of Warwick has appointed Andrew Coats to the inaugural positions of academic vice-...
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For-profit college evicted from London Met 'clearing house'
A private for-profit college has been prevented from taking on international students from London Metropolitan University because of concerns over quality.
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27 September 2012
Hole in the figures - Why student loan regime may not add up
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Savages
A violent, drug-addled reworking of Star Wars is an authentic work by a controversial auteur but lacks the bite of his earlier films, argues Duncan Wu
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Red alert
Is the new student loans system an affordable, progressive system of graduate contributions - or a dodgy move to get debt off the books that could bring grave fiscal consequences? John Morgan sifts...
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Synonym and antonym
Freedom and Liberty are not the same, finds Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Breeding leaders
A handful of universities have produced more than their share of vice-chancellors. Jack Grove looks at how these centres have nurtured talented leaders
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More scrutiny at the margin is a must
"Coalition failed to heed Ucas' AAB warnings" (News, 20 September) does not address the most serious issue arising from the government policies introduced for 2012-13 entry. It was always recognised...
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Men against boys
Sociologist Robert K. Merton's "Matthew effect" (ie, "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer") leads us to expect top academics to set up a system of evaluation that cements their position. So...
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Gabriel Vahanian, 1927-2012
A theologian who stirred up a storm of controversy with his theories about "the death of God" has died.Gabriel Vahanian was born into an Armenian family in Marseilles, France, on 24 January 19. He...