Ready for the storm?
Lord Mandelson has wielded the axe on university spending, and whichever party wins the general election, further cuts are likely. Using an exclusive analysis of institutions' financial statements by...
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18 March 2010
Hurricane approaching - As the financial storm bears down, see who’s got the strength to survive from our analyses of grant allocations and institutional balance sheets
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Muslim students continue street protest over closure of prayer room
Alternative shared accommodation offered but rejected as ‘unacceptable’. Melanie Newman reports
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#loveHE: A little more conversation, a lot more action
The global success of Coventry University’s podcasts shows that there is a huge market for intelligent HE-created content, says John Mair
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Review finds “clear agreement” that top-up fees have not deterred students
Lord Browne’s preliminary findings also indicate that the finance system for part-time students is inadequate. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Dynamic duo raise the temperature at Manchester
Two scientists who discovered graphene are listed among hottest researchers. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Pacific connection boosts partnerships Down Under
Australia and New Zealand see marked growth in research collaborations with China, reports Zoë Corbyn
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‘No science cuts? I’ll throw a party’
Adam Afriyie indicates that Tories would reduce the 2010-11 budget if they come to power. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: Giving the sector the second degree
Tara Brabazon muses on a non-graduate’s resentment at ‘taxpayer-funded’ higher education and the academy’s vision of lifelong ‘learner-earners’ buying social mobility
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Bournemouth head takes the reins at City
Paul Curran hails appointment as ‘unique privilege’. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Book of the week: Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
Katrina Schlunke finds exotic tales of Pacific island encounters to be most revealing
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The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure
An attempt to solve the mystery of a lost Aztec treasure doesn't crack it, says Alan Sandstrom
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Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is perhaps best remembered by millions of cinema-goers as Charlton Heston, trading terribilita with Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) in The Agony and the Ecstasy (...
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The Canon: Studies in Classic American Literature. By D.H. Lawrence
I took a course in D.H. Lawrence from the critic Marvin Mudrick when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate. We read the three great novels, all the stories and poems, a few travel books, and the...
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Diaghilev: A Life
Anne Hogan showers praise on a terrific study of a Russian colossus and true avant-gardist