The rate of social mobility in England over the past century and a half was substantially slower than most social scientists believe – and possibly slower than in the Middle Ages.That is the...
Tens of thousands of academics across the globe are now being invited to take part in the world’s biggest survey of university reputations ever undertaken.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Driven by its stated mission to pursue internationalisation via a socially progressive path, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (Alba) is quietly expanding its alternative vision of higher...
Some pharmacy students are getting less than half as much contact time as their peers at other UK universities, according to new figures.
Lecturers at Liverpool Hope University are to strike next week in a row over job losses.
Just six months after Lord Browne’s landmark review of higher education, and amid growing concern about the cost of the new tuition fee system, the coalition government has radically changed its...
Michael Berry appreciates the relentless scientific optimism of one of the UK's most original thinkers
Joanna Lewis follows the fearless explorers who took on and helped take over the Dark Continent
Religion was supposed to fade away in a secularising, globalising modernity, and in the post-9/11 period, proponents of secularism are often angry and bewildered at the persistence of religion. For...
Lord Baker of Dorking appreciates the scholarship applied to an appraisal of a great English artist
This contribution to a topic that is rarely out of the news for long is by four distinguished scholars, each an expert in his field, and one of them, Robert Fogel, is a winner of the Nobel prize for...
From the Cadbury family in the 19th century to Bill and Melinda Gates in the 21st, philanthropy and business have a long association. But today's philanthropist is more likely to be in the business...
South Africa/IsraelJohannesburg cuts Ben-Gurion tiesA South African university has severed longstanding links with Ben-Gurion University in Israel. The University of Johannesburg says in a statement...
More funding, hiring bonanza and four-year degrees all part and parcel of reform. John Morgan reports