Inside Higher Ed: Disappearing Liberal Arts Colleges
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Painful conditionality
"Organisational effectiveness is not viewed as simply foregrounding cost savings, but instead a much more complex interplay of influences and drivers that facilitate opportunities for enhancing the...
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UK viewed as safest place to study, says report
Despite the riots that swept English cities in August 2011, the UK is seen as the safest place to study by international students, according to a new British Council report.
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UCU decides against industrial action over pay
University lecturers will not join industrial action later this month over a 1 per cent pay offer after members voted against a strike.
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Swansea Met and Trinity Saint David formally merge
Students should not notice any difference at Swansea Metropolitan University despite it officially merging with another institution, the university's outgoing vice-chancellor has said.
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New Regius professorships to mark Jubilee
The Queen will award up to six Regius professorships to UK universities to mark the Diamond Jubilee, the Cabinet Office announced today.
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The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off
Howard Davies on an industrial strategy that could help the Third World catch up with the West
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Cartographic depictions of Earth must be viewed in their cultural context, finds Imre Josef Demhardt
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John Keats: A New Life
In the peaceful "English Cemetery" in Rome, where John Keats is buried, the steady supply of unwilted cut flowers that rest at the poet's grave might be taken as indicative of the legions of readers...
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Judaism: All That Matters
Keith Kahn-Harris, who has written much on heavy metal and other contemporary musical tastes, has also written much on British Jewry. In this short volume he offers an overview of Judaism worldwide,...
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Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer
A biography of one of Germany's musical titans touches on important themes, says Mark Berry
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Ignorance: How it Drives Science
Can a scientist win a Nobel prize by discovering nothing rather than something? That's how Albert Michelson won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907. His award was given for his development of...
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Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare: The Story of a Lost Play
The oddly named Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, which protests that the works were not written by Shakespeare, sponsors the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, a document that has attracted signatures...
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Don't give up the day job to help them secure day jobs
Scholar bemoans impact of employability agenda on academic standards. Matthew Reisz reports
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Candidates, follow our curriculum and prepare for global government
Billionaire-backed Oxford school takes leaf out of US book. David Matthews reports