In the 1950s, it was possible to count the number of students from an aboriginal background studying at Canadian universities on the fingers of one hand.Numbers have grown substantially since then,...
A branch of the US Republican Party has been accused of attacking academic freedom by using freedom of information laws to access emails sent by a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who...
Members of higher education unions will take to London’s streets to join a day of protest against government cuts to public services, while students plan to inject some “radical spirit” via a feeder...
Occupations are under way at two London universities as students rally in support of lecturers mounting a national strike over pensions, pay and jobs.
Aston University has become the first institution from outside the 1994 and Russell groups to announce plans to charge tuition fees of £9,000 in 2012.
Ulrike Zitzlsperger on the diaries of an 'average' man who played witness to the tumult of history
A whimsical tale fails to convey the power of a great thinker's insights, writes Biancamaria Fontana
Throughout these pages I have sought to write tendentiously," declares Gregory Sholette unwisely, "producing, I hope, a committed work that never disengages from its critical core." Tendentious to...
This book provides a top-notch tutorial on the current states of humanities research in the UK. The Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate, has imaginatively arranged 24 essays commissioned by the Arts...
Tom Palaima appreciates a depiction of the nature of exploitation under Roman imperial rule
This is a book on the philosophy of higher education in the tradition of Aristotle. Its refreshing message is that higher education, properly conceived, reflects the relatedness of human beings, and...
Let me start by conceding the central, most controversial thesis argued in this book: that neo-creationism and ultra-Darwinism are opposing offshoots of the same modernist root. Both read the Bible...
Asia-Pacific nations in chemistry, 2000-2010Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 2000-31 December 2010A-P rankWorld rankNations Papers Citations Citations...
Overhaul aims to give students the flexibility needed in an ever-changing market. Hannah Fearn reports
The UK has long had "more than its fair share" of international students, and must reconcile itself to the fact that things are going to change.This warning was made by Richard Yelland, head of the...