Campus round-up
Brunel UniversityKhan-do attitudeA university business school is running an Easter "boot camp" to attract sixth-formers predicted to get at least AAB at A level. The three-day residential event at...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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A little less égalité, a little more income, please
With public finances stretched, the French think the unthinkable on fees. Clea Caulcutt reports
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The week in higher education
? The 1994 Group was dealt a blow last month when four member universities - Durham, Exeter, York and Queen Mary, University of London - announced that they were ditching the network of "small but...
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From Where I Sit - Classified information
Higher education in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) is undergoing a period of rapid change and growth, which began well before the so-called Arab Spring. Student enrolment across the region...
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Odds and quads
These formidable Victorian women all appear in a photograph album which forms part of the archives of the Association of Head Mistresses (AHM), now held in the Modern Records Centre at the University...
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Appointments
Courtauld Institute of ArtTom NicksonA specialist in medieval architecture is to return to an institution he studied at in a teaching capacity. Tom Nickson, who is currently lecturer in the...
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Leader: Why must so many go it alone?
Pursuit of an academic career forces many scholars to make personal sacrifices that are bad for them and for the profession
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Research intelligence - Juggling act earns EPSRC mixed reviews
'Shaping capability' resulted in few changes but doubts linger about its agenda, Paul Jump writes
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The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned
By foregrounding naked ambition, this exhibition allows some more nuanced shadings to fade away, finds Jordan Vibert
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Winter is coming
‘Lucky’ Australia is feeling a rather British chill in the air, says Malcolm Gillies
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5 April 2012
Solitary course - The bill of fare for today’s ‘ideal’ scholar
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The three Rs: resources, research and Robin Hood
R&D and philanthropy are at the heart of a Turkish university’s ambitious plans. Matthew Reisz reports
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Resetting the compass
Resourceful academies in the global South and East have much to teach the ‘developed’ North and West, Sir David Watson observes
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Head of Sciences Po found dead in New York hotel
Richard Descoings, the head of the Paris institution Sciences Po and one of the leading reformers in French higher education, has been found dead in a New York hotel room.