This is the £3.7 billion question
Stephen Court looks at what 50 per cent participation in higher education really means and asks if it is achievable. Although education had a low profile in the chancellor's pre-budget report last...
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Listen to learners
Student feedback has a crucial role to play in evaluating institutional performance, writes Lee Harvey. Student feedback surveys have a unique element: they provide an insider view of what is really...
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We have the way, but is there the will?
To rid the world of chemical weapons requires sustained political and financial commitment, argues John Hart Chemical weapons have been a feature of conflict throughout the 20th century, employed by...
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A time bomb for the 21st century
Chemical warfare is a growing threat, but we know very little about its long-term implications, argue Christine Gosden and Derek Gardener. The 20th century provided a catalogue of weapons that could...
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Funders to 'collaborate'
The research councils should be "capable of operating as a 'virtual single council'" whose boundaries are invisible to the people they work with. This is the message of the quinquennial review of the...
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Protest over scrapping ILAs
A barrage of complaints over ministers' decision to ditch individual learning accounts will be brought to the government's door next week with a lobby of MPs and a cross-party forum at the House of...
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Action to crush Kurd language campaign
Turkey's ÌÇÐÄVlog Authority (Yok) has told pro-Kurdish students that they face expulsion if they press for Kurdish-language rights in universities. The use of the language in universities...
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Latest news
Courtauld becomes London college The Courtauld Institute of Art is to become a college of the University of London. At present it is an integral part of the central university with no separate legal...
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From today's UK papers
Higher education spin-offs push Britain up entrepreneurial league Spin-off companies created from higher education institutions have risen sharply in number, challenging the view that British...
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From Marx to mass market
Sociology was young when Margo Russell came to it. Over her career, it went from a tool for social change to a much-derided Mickey Mouse subject - but its value remains. I came to sociology before it...
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Henry V leads businessmen unto the breach
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel whose title comes from the first speech in Milton's Samson Agonistes: "The snapshots had...
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Chilly tale of ale fad
The Little Ice Age
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To: Dictators, Re: Torture
Brendan O'Leary on 40 years of Amnesty International campaigning. Amnesty International turned 40 this year. The organisation, especially in comparison with most internationalist non-governmental...
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