Edification, edification, edification...
Much has been made of the supposedly supine response of vice-chancellors to the wholesale reform of higher education by the coalition government.
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Industry urged to back UK research
The business world's "counter-intuitive" failure to capitalise on the UK's ever-increasing research excellence needs to be addressed by the government, the author of a report into UK research has...
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Cuts threaten feeder route to part-time study
Cutting teaching subsidies could "kill off" evening-class courses, which are a key route into part-time degrees, a conference has heard.
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This REF is a deadly serious undertaking
Frustration with audit culture has driven a scholar to murder - in fiction. Matthew Reisz investigates
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Case sets out the principled way to accept a gift
LSE awaits outcome of probe into Gaddafi regime gifts to publish guidelines. David Matthews reports
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'Concentrate on overall experience, not jobs'
Too much emphasis on graduate employability in Key Information Sets could play into the hands of private for-profit providers at the expense of universities, a vice-chancellor has warned.
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Nine Lives of William Shakespeare
After so much ado, why not a metabiography of the Bard that explores all his guises? asks Willy Maley
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Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Rivalry with Ivy Leaguers and for-profits is harming the 'squeezed middle', discovers Charles Middleton
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How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
Of all the major religions, which in more innocent days were called world religions, Judaism is the most idiosyncratic. Is it a religion, a culture, an ethnicity or a mix? Leora Batnitzky asserts...
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Bombshell: The Many Faces of Women Terrorists
Ever since Vera Zasulich shot the governor of St Petersburg in 1878, it has been clear that women could be at least as effective terrorists as men. Since terrorist groups, until recently, have often...
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Metamorphosis: Unmasking the Mystery of How Life Transforms
Jon Turney is unconvinced by a theory about how caterpillars grow wings and other transformations
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The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37
A diverse collection of artworks from the Weimar period focused on sex and death make an astonishing show, Peter Hill says
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The Pick - The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionThe First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah SiddonsNational Portrait Gallery, London, until 8 January 2012Because Covent Garden was famous for...
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Diary
NottinghamKlaus Weber: If you leave me I'm not comingThe works of Klaus Weber, as this wide-ranging exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary (22 October until 8 January 2012) reveals, constantly call...
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'Willetts is innocent' - v-c
Our vice-chancellor has described academic suspicions about the significance of David Willetts' regular meetings with private providers of higher education as "absurdly paranoid".He agrees that "on...