Full-court press hits athletics as students count the costs
Universities are beginning to find the price of sporting glory too high to bear, writes Jon Marcus
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The week in higher education
• Academics at a Jesuit university in the US who challenged a leading Catholic Republican politician over his proposed budget cuts have earned themselves a pious response. Staff at Georgetown...
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Leader: All for one, or none for all?
An every-university-for-itself stance in the face of more austerity could leave higher education worse off as a sector
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From where I sit - Mission creep tarnishes MBA
The MBA landscape in Germany has always been somewhat troubled. For a start, the degree was actually prohibited until 1990, and since then, the road has been a rapid but rocky one. Recently, articles...
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Odds and quads
These images, held in the archives of the University of Strathclyde, come from the papers of William J. Ireland (1924-2002), a graduate of the Scottish School of Physical Education who went on to...
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Appointments
Royal Holloway, University of LondonPhilip SteinbergAn expert in Arctic geopolitics will this month swap the Sunshine State of Florida for the Home Counties and a prestigious fellowship. Philip...
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Bauhaus: Art as Life
The Bauhaus school is getting a retrospective in London, after a gap of more than 40 years. Alexander Massouras writes
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Stylish Academic Writing
Untold riches could be yours with academics’ secret codex. Les Gofton gets a head start
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Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation
Jean Duncombe ponders the interdependency of women’s self-worth and romantic relationships
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Free-range thinkers
Independent scholars can confound, complement and challenge the work of their campus counterparts. Matthew Reisz meets some on the edges of academia whose interests - and prose - are unfettered by...
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Publish - and be damned
When Bernard Porter was persuaded to entrust one of his books to a company he'd not worked with before, he discovered that not all publishers are equal. Caveat emptor, he warns young academics
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Alternative medicine and its discontents (1 of 2)
Regarding "Aberdeen looks to feather its nest in a field dubbed 'pure quackery' " (News, 26 April): I am alarmed by this article for five good reasons.First, it seems to misrepresent the long and...
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Alternative medicine and its discontents (2 of 2)
As a 1960s Aberdeen science graduate, I am appalled by the university's reported plans for a chair in "a field dubbed 'pure quackery' ". If this is the sort of pseudoscience our funds might support,...
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You can be too careful
In a surprisingly hysterical article from the director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Julian Savulescu claims that synthetic biology "introduces new jokers into the pack" so that...
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Continuity error
The College of Law deal marks the second sale of a UK higher education entity with temporary degree-awarding powers to an overseas owner ("College of Law sale sets legal precedent for raising of...