The week in higher education
Lecturers often moan that student radicals have disappeared, but a few could be found at Maggie鈥檚 Good Riddance Party, a protest organised by Dominic Francis, a student at Ruskin College in Oxford,...
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Leader - Core values and the cradle of liberty
Among the factors that make students (and others) happy is community, hard as it may be to measure
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Talking points
Informal group admits reform requires more work than previously thought. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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'Bonkers': so is there something crazy about the English funding system?
The government鈥檚 鈥渧ery radical鈥 policy to slash direct public funding for teaching in English higher education is seen by the rest of the world as 鈥渃ompletely bonkers鈥, according to the head of...
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V-c finds little intellectual merit in 鈥榢nowledge for knowledge鈥檚 sake鈥
Robert Gordon v-c critiques traditional rationale for scholarly activity. David Matthews writes
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Boston students promote healing after the bombings
Boston, one of the global capitals of higher education, was thrown into chaos last week after bombers targeted the city鈥檚 marathon, sparking a manhunt that ended in further violence. Our US...
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Hefce wants contract talks as old powers are drained under new regime
Funding council plans new contract as legislation is 鈥榩ushed to the limit鈥. John Morgan reports
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With cash on the line, Athena SWANs take wing
Applications for the Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science gender equality award have soared since it was linked to research funding by the Department of Health.Sixty-eight higher education...
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Welsh: rare hits in Oxbridge, MP claims
Wales must encourage more applications to the elite institutions, says MP. David Matthews writes
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Laurie Taylor
1-2-3. It鈥檚 so elementaryOur intrepid reporter Keith Ponting (30) tells us that David Willetts may be one of the first students to adopt the new mathematics curriculum devised by his ministerial...
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Letters
Anti-austerity? Come join the resistanceWe are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government鈥檚 austerity programme and are increasingly determined to...
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1-2-3. It's so elementary
鈥業s this right, Mr Gove?鈥橭ur intrepid reporter Keith Ponting (30) tells us that David Willetts may be one of the first students to adopt the new mathematics curriculum devised by his ministerial...
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On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of English Suburbia by Rupa Huq
Les Gofton ventures into the shadowy suburban world of competing cultures
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THE Student Experience Survey 2013
Improving the student experience is a priority for universities the length and breadth of the land
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal
Eric Michael Johnson reviews the argument that human moral feelings have been shaped by natural selection