UCU vote means 63 universities face strikes
Sixty-three of the UK’s most prestigious universities face strikes over changes to pensions after members of the University and College Union backed stoppages.
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Voices of protest under the dreaming spires
A formal campaign against the government’s higher education reforms is to be set up at the University of Oxford.
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Exeter goes to the top of the cap
The University of Exeter, which is led by Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, plans to set undergraduate tuition fees at ÂŁ9,000 a year, the maximum allowed.
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Bloody mess: LSE’s rearguard action against Libyan links continues
Tainted money, allegations of plagiarism and surrender to the demands of angry student occupiers: the London School of Economics’ links to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Mu’ammer...
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Hefce reduces points of impact in REF
The weighting given to impact in the first research excellence framework will be less than originally envisaged, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has confirmed.
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Gloucestershire turns to BIS for new v-c
The University of Gloucestershire has appointed a senior official at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as its new vice-chancellor.
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Inside Higher Ed: College suspends courses by gay priest
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Painful legacy: US academy confronts slave-holding past
On the northern edge of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a statue of a Confederate soldier stands sentry, rifle at the ready. Given to the university in 1913 by the...
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Competition will be Willetts’ fee fighter
To keep prices down, loans will be extended to private-sector students and caps on places will be loosened, but minister wants more time to prepare White Paper
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Hefce likely to lessen the impact
Research “impact” will count for less than the proposed 25 per cent in the research excellence framework, funding chiefs are expected to confirm next week.
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The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Lucy Wooding praises a compelling study of the evolving significance of the land's sacred features
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Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art and Arson in the Convents of Italy
Mary Laven enjoys an original account of alleged cloistered crime and use of the 'diabolical arts'
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Much Ado About (Practically) Nothing: A History of the Noble Gases
The noble gases are the silent onlookers of the chemical world. Atoms of helium, neon, argon, krypton and radon have electrons, in the negatively charged cloud smeared around their nuclei, in just...
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The Politics of Literature
Jacques Rancière is increasingly highly thought of by anglophone literary critics and theorists. He has a reputation as a radical thinker, both intellectually and politically: he was a collaborator...
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The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini
James Delbourgo admires an enlightened woman of science who became a fixture of the Grand Tour