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Campus round-up
Trinity Laban ConservatoirePride and joyTwo original musical pieces written by an academic took centre stage at the Paralympics opening ceremony. Errollyn Wallen, who teaches composition at Trinity...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
? Plans to almost double tuition fees in Quebec could be scrapped after a student-led "maple spring" unseated the province's government, The Guardian reported on 5 September. The election of a...
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From Where I Sit - A real Nowhere man
Amid the fallout from the scandal over Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant football coach convicted of child abuse, how could one possibly associate the university with utopia...
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Odds and quads
The Apollo 15 mission of July and August 1971 was the first to allow a manned spacecraft to spend an extended period of time - close to three days - on the surface of the Moon.
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Appointments
University of WolverhamptonJohn DarlingThe new dean of research at the University of Wolverhampton has expressed his delight at being part of "ambitious plans for investing in research at the...
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India and London Met lose that loving feeling
Joanna Sugden reports from India on falling student applications and pre-emptive cutbacks
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Stay-at-home students need help to get moving
European universities need to improve their efforts to help doctoral students and academics spend time abroad, a report by the European University Association has found.
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Leader: Bring forth the body of evidence
It is outrageous that Whitehall remains reliant on an inaccurate system to measure overseas students' comings and goings
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Research intelligence - The Young ones look for British home
Scientists at the peak of their creativity are trying to find a voice in Britain. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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13 September 2012
Politics, philosophy, economics - Troubled outsider’s outsized significance
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English tuition-fee regime gets thumbs up on mobility
‘Most advanced’ student-support structure in developed world, says OECD. John Morgan reports
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Remains found in search for English king
University archaeologists searching for the resting place of Richard III are grabbing the news headlines after finding human remains.
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No-holds Bard in digital initiative
A major new resource devoted to the writings of "Shakespeare and his immediate contemporaries, antecedents and successors" has been launched by Oxford University Press.