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21 July 2011
Swing theory - Unpicking Australia’s demand-led reforms
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Low fee puts OU and partners in pole position to snap up ‘biddable’ places
Distance learning specialist the Open University will undercut every higher education institution in England in 2012 by charging fees of £5,000 a year for degrees from September 2012, it has been...
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Decision to scrap Education Maintenance Allowance ‘ill thought through’
A committee of MPs has criticised the way in which the government cut the Education Maintenance Allowance, which supported poor 16-19 year olds in education.
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Report sets out benefits and pitfalls of international partnerships
The higher education sector in the UK is undergoing “a strategic shift†in the way it thinks about internationalisation, according to a report published today.
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Inside Higher Ed: The fall of the faculty
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
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Jail sentence for student who swung from Cenotaph
The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been jailed for 16 months for a rampage at a student fees protest.
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Graduate employment returns to 2007-08 levels
Around two-thirds of graduates finishing university last year found jobs within six months of leaving, a slight improvement on the year before.
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Researcher guilty of misconduct no longer working at UEL
The University of East London has parted company with a researcher following revelations that he was found guilty of research misconduct at two previous universities.
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Elite institutions that will compete for most AAB students revealed
Seventeen English universities face having to win back at least 1,000 full-time undergraduate places as a result of the government’s proposals to create competition for top-achieving students in 2012...
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Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'
The story of the painstaking creation of an influential work is a revelation to Lucy Wooding
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The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing
An attempt to write a 'great book' in the old style is ambitious but misguided, says Robert Eaglestone
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Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life
I have a slight obsession with getting cold and wet, for no particularly good reason, and have often been encouraged to wonder why by the less masochistic members of my family. This usually occurs...
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Shakespeare and Amateur Performance: A Cultural History
When it comes to Shakespeare, we're all amateurs. Jacques Derrida wished to live 200 years to become a Shakespeare expert. Michael Dobson hasn't lived that long, but with four centuries of...
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Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism & Rebellion in the Garden
Clive Bloom celebrates a bravura account of the power of flowers and the politics of a fertile earth