Handle with care
League tables occupy the minds of vice-chancellors, politicians, academics and students, but Ellen Hazelkorn advises them not to draw hasty conclusions
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The UK plc roadshow
Shadowing the speed-dating expats who recruit for British universities, Caroline Knowles finds that their hypermobile lives parallel those of the students they pursue
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8 July 2010
The rankings dilemma - League tables’ search for fruitful measures
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Opacity of UEA’s actions contributed to Climategate scandal, says Russell report
The University of East Anglia was responsible for creating an environment of opacity which preceded the “Climategate” scandal, however the “rigour and honesty” of the scientists involved is beyond...
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YouTube and context
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Shrinking job market sees nearly 70 applicants vie for every graduate job
The graduate job market is tougher than ever, with a new report suggesting that 69 graduates will compete for every position this year.
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Taking liberties in so-called civil Canada
Robert Diab and W. Wesley Pue argue that the violence at the recent G20 meetings in Toronto highlight the inadequacy of public-order policy by the Mounties
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Disciplinary proceedings halted in ‘fruitbatgate’ case
University College Cork has been forced to halt disciplinary proceedings against the academic at the centre of the so-called “fruitbatgate” row after the Irish High Court agreed to consider the case....
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Graduate unemployment up 25 per cent: women fare better than men
Unemployment among graduates has jumped 25 per cent in a year and is worse among men than women, a report has found.Analysis by the Higher Education Policy Institute of the most recent data available...
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Hefce boss is among best-paid mandarins, Cabinet Office shows
Higher education in England is overseen by one of the highest-earning mandarins in the country, according to new government figures.The £230,000-£234,999 salary enjoyed in 2009-10 by Sir Alan...
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Welsh v-c plans departure, as Gloucestershire appoints new top man
The vice-chancellor of Aberystwyth University is to step down at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.Noel Lloyd, who has held the post since 2004, announced his intention to retire at a meeting of...
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Shakespeare Only
Like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, the author is no more. Literary texts, we are assured, come into being as a patchwork of cultural fragments, quotations and half-quotations and...
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No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4' 33"
David Revill finds much of value in an examination of one of the best-misunderstood works of our time
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Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement
Given that today the majority of British women (and men) support feminist demands such as equal access to higher education, the right to contraception, abortion on demand and equal pay, what is it...
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Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979
How could jihadi violence break out in a country seen as the historical heartland of Islam and ruled by a state that boasts about its many Islamic credentials? Here, Thomas Hegghammer unpacks the...