CSR 2010: Terrible result, but the game鈥檚 not over
The CSR proposes shifting the burden of university spending from the state to the student. The academy must probe coalition weaknesses and stop the plans before it鈥檚 too late, argues Pam Tatlow
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CSR 2010: Business, as usual
The CSR鈥檚 savagery is the latest chapter in a narrative first articulated by Labour: the neoliberal university. Andrew Blake writes
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CSR 2010: What the sector thinks
Higher education funding鈥淚t is hard to see the rationale behind slashing college and university budgets when they generate massive economic growth for the country and when the alternative is more...
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Fears made flesh: only STEM teaching grants spared CSR scythe
Government funding for higher education is to be cut by 40 per cent over four years, suggesting that public funding for teaching in the arts, humanities and social sciences may come to an end.
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GuildHE urges reflection before implementing Browne Review and cuts
The government has been warned of the potential for disastrous consequences if it does not pause for thought before embracing Lord Browne鈥檚 proposals for reform of higher education while implementing...
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Tara Brabazon: The end of 鈥榮hhhhh鈥 in the library
In a time of shrinking funding, librarians鈥 savvy use of time- and space-shifting podcasts can aid diverse groups of students and scholars and highlight valuable resources, argues Tara Brabazon
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Oxford reveals the method in the madness of its interview questions
What is 鈥渘ormal鈥 for humans? Why do a cat鈥檚 eyes appear to glow in the dark?
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Inside Higher Ed: More legal risk for Canada鈥檚 universities
By Doug Lederman, for Inside Higher Ed
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The ancient students of Greece鈥nd we are not talking Plato
Ten years of study with no sign of a degree points to an academy in crisis. Matthew Reisz reports
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The sum of our 鈥榳orst fears鈥: UUK chief says prepare for cuts of 拢4.2bn
The president of Universities UK has told vice-chancellors to expect cuts of 拢4.2 billion in the government鈥檚 spending review 鈥 and warned that a huge funding gap is a 鈥渢errible danger鈥.
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Poor students to benefit from Clegg鈥檚 拢7bn 鈥榝airness premium鈥
Students from poor backgrounds will receive help to attend university as part of a wider 拢7 billion 鈥渇airness premium鈥 announced today by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister.
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth
Hester Vaizey hails a vivid portrayal of the queens who thwarted the constraints on their sex
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The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps
A chilling look at our possible destiny indicates the limits of human adaptability, says Barry Brook
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Few moments in 20th-century American popular music have been quite so maligned as the disco years. They are inevitably characterised as a tasteless age defined by testosterone-charged men strutting...
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The Canon: How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939 by Donald Cameron Watt
My relationship with How War Came began in 1989. I was a wide-eyed history postgraduate at the University of Toronto. I enrolled in a course on the causes of the Second World War and our tutor told...