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Campus round-up
Queen Mary, University of LondonRising in the EastA 拢36 million graduate centre is to be built after being given the go-ahead by planners. Set to open in 2015, the centre at Queen Mary, University of...
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23 February 2012
Top-up credits - Open courseware and the challenge to traditional campus education
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The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan, by George Steiner
Tom Palaima lauds a reflection on the millennia-old struggle to express original ideas through language
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UK is citation sensation in physics
The quality of US physics has been surpassed by that of both Canada and the UK over the past decade, new analysis commissioned by the Institute of Physics suggests.
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Promote a benign state of mind, peacekeeper urges global academy
Universities must foster in their students the 鈥渂enevolent and amiable temper of mind鈥 defined by the novelist Henry Fielding, a leading international peacekeeper told the Association of...
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Inside Higher Ed: Attack of the memes
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cable holds firm to appoint Ebdon
Les Ebdon has been formally appointed as the new director of fair access, with business secretary Vince Cable telling the parliamentary committee that rejected him there were no 鈥渘ew, relevant facts...
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Private firm extends student accommodation empire
A private company that specialises in long-term multi-million pound deals to build and run student facilities has extended its reach in the sector with a new 拢57.2 million contract with Nottingham...
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UUK fails in bid for amendment to FoI Act
The government has rejected calls for an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act that would specifically exempt pre-publication research data from release.
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Legal challenge to fees hike fails
Two teenagers have lost their legal battle against the increase in tuition fees this year.
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鈥楥onsensus statement鈥 on research integrity released
The UK Research Integrity Office has welcomed calls for it to be placed at the centre of a toughened research integrity oversight regime in the UK.
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Payback time as Tories win student loans concession
Students will not be penalised for paying back their tuition fees early, the government has indicated.
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What Are Universities For?, by Stefan Collini
Fred Inglis applauds a polemic on higher education's purpose and the perils it faces
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Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress
Judith Weingarten is fascinated by the woman who, amid decline and fall, ruled an empire for 12 years