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Who's boss? US governing bodies flex their muscles
Virginia president keeps her job, but once-inert boards are stirring nationwide. Jon Marcus writes
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Did partisan politics 'terminate' doyenne?
Speculation links Diane Ravitch’s criticism of Romney with thinktank exit. Jon Marcus writes
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The week in higher education
? About one in seven state schools did not send a single pupil to a Russell Group university in 2009-10, the Financial Times reported on 18 July. Some 330 schools - 15 per cent - sent no children to...
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Leader: Little buy-in for market dreams
The government expected price sensitivity and consumer choice to drive down degree costs, but that's not happening
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Off Piste - Hive talking
Can useful parallels be drawn between apiculture and running a university? Ruth Farwell does both and isn’t sure, but one thing’s for certain: in both pursuits, losing your cool can sting
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From Where I Sit - Do the rite thing
I have just chaired my first doctoral defence in Sweden. About 50 people were in attendance - nearly filling the high-tiered old lecture hall where the defence was held - including the candidate's...
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Odds and quads
A Brown University chemistry class from the 1870s poses for a photograph on the steps of Rogers Hall (now the Salomon Center) as a professor, John Appleton, appears to watch current students leaving...
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Appointments
Leeds College of MusicCharlie SiemA rising classical music star has added an academic post at an English institution to his accolades. Virtuoso violinist Charlie Siem has been named visiting...
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Research intelligence - Government's go-to agency for growth seeds scholarly field
Technology Strategy Board aims to yield economic harvest with sector's help. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Shakespeare: Staging the World
Peter J. Smith on a fresh view of the Bard via the prism of materiality and the playwright’s own socio-historical moment
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Having none of it
Life/work imbalance hits women harder. But despair not, says Sally Feldman
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26 July 2012
Kindred intellects - When the academy is in the blood
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Petition aims to save historic collection
A university has launched an online petition in a bid to persuade the Law Society not to break up a unique historic collection of about 5,000 manuscripts, early and rare ecclesiastical books and...
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No let-up in overseas oversight for private colleges
The 糖心Vlog Office has confirmed it will continue with the system of “educational oversight”, which requires private higher education colleges to pass inspections carried out by the Quality Assurance...