Staff put on red alert over Bolton's drastic plans to get into the black
Claims that overseas and private ventures may have added to financial woes. John Morgan reports
Claims that overseas and private ventures may have added to financial woes. John Morgan reports

A national strategy on improving university access is set to be published by next autumn.

NUS march ends amid boos, grumbling and confusion in sodden outfield. John Morgan reports
Government changes to initial teacher training (ITT) could create a āperfect stormā for higher education, a seminar has heard.James Noble-Rogers, executive director of the Universitiesā Council for...
No traditional partner needed for new foundation degree-level qualification. David Matthews writes
The expansion of higher education provision in further education colleges has not happened as quickly as the government had hoped, Vince Cable has admitted.Speaking on 21 November at the Association...

Steve Yearley weighs claims that environmental policies sweep emissions under a Chinese rug
A book like this makes me nervous. Here I am writing for Times Higher Education when I should be engaged in proper, serious scholarship. Look at this book: prodigious does not begin to do it justice...
Raymond Williams described ācultureā as āone of the two or three most complicated words in the English languageā. I wonder how he would have managed āmediatizationā. I have a sense that he would have...
Willy Maley on a writer of commitmentās memoir of a postcolonial nationās descent into conflict
We face a great contemporary paradox. Many domestic economies are stagnating and in desperate need of growth. At the same time, the apparently free natural resources of the planet are being used up....
Pain is complicated, not only because of the different types of it but also because of the multidimensional aspects of the physical, emotional and cognitive experience. However, in Understanding Pain...

The "Beveridge Report" (officially the Social Insurance and Allied Services report), which laid the basis for the post-war welfare state, was published 70 years ago this week. This is said to be the...
University of WollongongEeva LeinonenEeva Leinonen, who took over as deputy vice-chancellor (education) at the University of Wollongong at the beginning of the month, said the institution's "human...

Learning outcomes are frequently dismissed as a nuisance to be dutifully completed and swiftly put aside, but Frank Furedi believes their prescriptive nature and underlying utilitarian ethos make...