Universities must foster in their students the “benevolent and amiable temper of mind” defined by the novelist Henry Fielding, a leading international peacekeeper told the Association of...
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
Les Ebdon has been formally appointed as the new director of fair access, with business secretary Vince Cable telling the parliamentary committee that rejected him there were no “new, relevant facts...
A private company that specialises in long-term multi-million pound deals to build and run student facilities has extended its reach in the sector with a new £57.2 million contract with Nottingham...
The government has rejected calls for an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act that would specifically exempt pre-publication research data from release.
Two teenagers have lost their legal battle against the increase in tuition fees this year.
The UK Research Integrity Office has welcomed calls for it to be placed at the centre of a toughened research integrity oversight regime in the UK.
Students will not be penalised for paying back their tuition fees early, the government has indicated.
Fred Inglis applauds a polemic on higher education's purpose and the perils it faces
Judith Weingarten is fascinated by the woman who, amid decline and fall, ruled an empire for 12 years
In Susan Hill's superlative ghost story The Small Hand, a London book dealer named Adam travels on behalf of a wealthy client to a remote French monastery in search of Shakespeare's First Folio. Hill...
In our troubled times, there is much to learn from John Maynard Keynes' approach to understanding and remedying the problems of stagnating economies and unstable financial systems.Interest in Keynes...
An investigation into our behaviour shows we're not as logical as we imagine, Miriam Teschl discovers
Julie Doyle used to study techniques for the visualisation of the body in the context of anatomy; in her spare time she was a Greenpeace campaigner. This book blends those preoccupations: it asks how...
Igor Stravinsky's stature as one of the most influential composers of the modern era seems all but incontestable, and Charles Joseph's study accordingly situates its subject as the 20th-century...