Life of Pi
The once ‘unfilmable’ story of a boy and a tiger stranded together on a lifeboat contains flashes of 3D genius but ultimately proves too tame for Will Brooker
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V-cs, get set to do the maths (and prepare the begging bowl)
As UCL’s new provost is announced, Steven Schwartz considers the challenges facing the sector’s leaders over the next 12 months
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20 December 2012
Front lines - Fact and fiction intertwined in tales of war, peace and Christmas truces
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Nor the battle to the dumb
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on Notre Dame’s healthy minds in healthy bodies
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THE podcast: 20 December 2012 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanEditor John Gill and reporters David Matthews and Jack Grove join Chris Parr on the latest THE podcast to discuss some of the highlights from this week’s Times Higher...
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Seduced by Logic: ?milie Du Ch?telet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
Biancamaria Fontana admires the courage of two women who dared to enter scientific circles
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1994 Group leaks yet another member
The University of Reading is to leave the 1994 Group, becoming the eighth institution this year to depart from the group of small research-intensive universities.
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Labour brands free Scottish tuition "regressive"
The leader of Scottish Labour has attacked the free university tuition north of the border as being "essentially regressive".
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Migration target panned by another Parliamentary committee
A fifth Parliamentary committee has urged the government to remove international students from its net migration target, warning that failure to do so will damage UK universities.
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Inside Higher Ed: Flipping the job search
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Racial divide is higher education’s ‘dirty secret’
Race is higher education’s “dirty little secret” and more should be done to tackle the issue, a debate has heard.
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Report highlights huge growth in overseas student numbers
International students make up 12 per cent of the total student population at UK universities, a sharp rise from 8 per cent eight years earlier.
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University launches specialist maths school
A London university has announced it is to set up a specialist school for gifted young mathematicians as part of the government's plans to improve mathematics education in the state sector.
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Report highlights access benefit for children of graduates
State school students in England with university-educated parents are five times more likely to reach higher education than those from "disadvantaged backgrounds", and are also more likely to go to...
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Open University launches British Mooc platform to rival US providers
A UK-based platform for massive open online courses (Moocs) to rival established providers in the US has been launched by The Open University.