Bombay dreams
India hopes to join the superpower elite, but there is not enough international quality in its higher education system. Phil Baty reports on how it aims to raise standards by overhauling regulation...
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Take the time to get it right
Philip Altbach advises India to tread carefully - the international experience shows that simply throwing open the doors to foreign providers is no panacea
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Bubble trouble
The humanities are in the same state financial markets were in before they crashed. Assessing the growing mountain of toxic intellectual debt, Philip Gerrans considers going short on some overvalued...
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In search of singular insight
Social sciences have advanced little because inquiry and discovery are stifled by 'theory' and 'the search for order' in the academy. Gary Thomas says we need to break away from the pattern
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9 July 2009
Passage to India - Foreign operators stand by to receive government blessing
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Leeds Met abandons fees discount
Institution will charge full whack from 2010-11. Hannah Fearn reports
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Brickbats for plan to axe stay-at-home students' fees
Proposal would widen gap between the haves and have-nots, critics warn. Hannah Fearn reports
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Tribute to a public-service legend
The great and the good gather to remember the remarkable life of Lord Dearing. Phil Baty reports
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Fears of “dumbing down†as OU considers cuts
Science department’s internal document proposes shorter courses and changes to practical work. Hannah Fearn reports
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Downturn claims one in four graduate positions
Gloom-and-doom report shows ‘perfect storm’ is still raging. Neha Popat reports
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NUS calls on ‘incompetent’ head of Offa to quit
The National Union of Students has called for the director of the Office for Fair Access (Offa) to resign, accusing him of presiding over a regime of “staggering incompetenceâ€.
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MPs reject university sub-committee proposal
BISC chairman claims move would not benefit higher education, but pledges to keep a close eye on the sector. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Book of the week: The Spectre at the Feast
John Whitelegg gauges solutions to the failings of the free market
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Violence, Martyrdom and Partition: A Daughter's Testimony
A painstakingly honest tale of one woman's struggle leaves Joanna Lewis humbled
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Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England
In 1992, Kevin Sharpe published The Personal Rule of Charles I. Like the book under review, it was both lengthy and deeply researched. It was what I suppose one must now call an old-fashioned...