Union calls on MPs to investigate possible collusion over tuition fees
A union official has called on a cross-party group of MPs to investigate whether universities are colluding on tuition fees.
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Pause for reflection: Uclan head calls for timeout on fees reform
The vice-chancellor of the second post-1992 university to set £9,000 fees has called on the government to “pause” fee rises and new legislation to allow time for a “new Dearing report” into the...
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Derby to offer range of tuition fees
The University of Derby has announced that it intends to set variable tuition fees of up to ÂŁ8,000 from September 2012.
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Social mobility no easier in England’s modern meritocracy than in medieval oligarchy
The rate of social mobility in England over the past century and a half was substantially slower than most social scientists believe – and possibly slower than in the Middle Ages.That is the...
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Global canvass: reputation survey is under way
Tens of thousands of academics across the globe are now being invited to take part in the world’s biggest survey of university reputations ever undertaken.
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Inside Higher Ed: Laptop and battery (arrest)
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Latin America’s alternative alliance
Driven by its stated mission to pursue internationalisation via a socially progressive path, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (Alba) is quietly expanding its alternative vision of higher...
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Doses may vary: wide disparity in pharmacy students’ contact hours
Some pharmacy students are getting less than half as much contact time as their peers at other UK universities, according to new figures.
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UCU announces strike at Liverpool Hope
Lecturers at Liverpool Hope University are to strike next week in a row over job losses.
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TV bidding and BS juries in biggest shake-up since Browne
Just six months after Lord Browne’s landmark review of higher education, and amid growing concern about the cost of the new tuition fee system, the coalition government has radically changed its...
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World
Michael Berry appreciates the relentless scientific optimism of one of the UK's most original thinkers
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Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Colonial Conquest of Africa
Joanna Lewis follows the fearless explorers who took on and helped take over the Dark Continent
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Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways
Religion was supposed to fade away in a secularising, globalising modernity, and in the post-9/11 period, proponents of secularism are often angry and bewildered at the persistence of religion. For...
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Regarding Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827: His Life, Art and Acquaintance
Lord Baker of Dorking appreciates the scholarship applied to an appraisal of a great English artist
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The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Human Development in the Western World since 1700
This contribution to a topic that is rarely out of the news for long is by four distinguished scholars, each an expert in his field, and one of them, Robert Fogel, is a winner of the Nobel prize for...