The launch of the 2012 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings was a hot topic at the British Council’s Going Global conference in London last month. Here, rankings editor Phil Baty talks to...
Full-time academic staff in US universities continued to receive below-inflation pay rises in 2011-12, a report has found.
Bolder measures are required to ensure students from poorer families have access to information about university courses, a thinktank has said.
The head of England’s funding council has warned that government calculations on student loan repayments “have got to turn out to be robust†if the new higher education system is to be financially...
Almost eight in ten UK universities will embark on major capital projects worth more than £5 million in the next year as they face up to fiercer competition for students under the new regime.
Kerstin Hoge takes a trip into the heart of functionalism with a maverick iconoclast
A reminder of pedagogy's power to reach beyond the logic of capital enthuses Shahidha Bari
Philosopher Moshe Halbertal distinguishes two kinds of sacrifice: sacrifice to and sacrifice for. Sacrifice "to", which is older, means a gift, as in the giving of an animal or even a human to a god...
In this socio-historical account of the US' federally mandated institutional review boards, or IRBs, Laura Stark begins by offering an ethnographic analysis of the "knowledge experts" who sit on the...
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan dips her beak into the inner life of our mysterious feathered friends
The media industry has unquestionably been transformed by advertisers' ability to collect data at the individual level about internet users and use it to design more effective ad campaigns. Here,...
People who dwell in architectural masterpieces generally ignore the design's importance in their day-to-day pursuits. Here, Christopher Loss shows why academics should stop ignoring the higher...
The fortunes of East Asia's two great powers are inextricably linked, argues Kerry Brown
When one thinks about what to do to combat climate change, the answer seems obvious: take steps to reduce the use of fossil carbon. Improve engine efficiency, switch to alternative sources of...
This isn't a book by Noam Chomsky, it isn't really composed of interviews, and it contains no "science of language".Yes, 44 per cent of it contains transcribed conversations between James McGilvray...