Hungarian sector limps along as youth still vote with their feet
‘Student contract’ fails to forestall exodus as academy reels from massive cuts
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State interventionism
The coverage of the Robbins report’s 50th anniversary was a reminder of the way higher education shapes and is shaped by government policy. Robbins established that for the UK, the extent of...
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US alternative to student loans polarises debate
Liberals and conservatives argue over merits of intergenerational Pay It Forward plan
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JANET set to feed data-hungry sector
Jisc’s super-fast network arrives ‘on time and on budget’
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An exciting contest
Felipe Fernández-Armesto judges a revealing after-dinner game
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Our ‘world-class’ status may be greatly exaggerated
Bahram Bekhradnia warns of the clear and present dangers facing the UK academy
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Q&A with Sir Paul Nurse
We speak to the Royal Society president and director of the Francis Crick Institute. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Distant Love, by Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Les Gofton on ‘world families’ and globalisation
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Must academics researching authoritarian regimes self-censor?
In the case of Rwanda, it is wrong to argue that only academics working outside the country are capable of critical comment, says Phil Clark
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Shakespeare by numbers: my quest to see every single play
Emma Rees is 34 down, four to go in a bid to see the Bard’s entire canon on stage
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David Eastwood, John Gilbey, Liz Gloyn, Roger Luckhurst and Judie Newman...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Dynamics of Disaster, by Susan W. Kieffer
Alison Stokes on natural catastrophes and the need to use collective wisdom to cope with them
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Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil, by Victoria Langland
Sarah Sarzynski on an analysis of student activism during Brazil’s military dictatorship
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Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City, by Bradley L. Garrett
Tim Hall takes a ride with the urban explorers obsessed with penetrating the half-built, derelict or hidden parts of our cities
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The Hamlet Doctrine, by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
Peter J. Smith on non-Lit Crit efforts to find the method in the Danish prince’s madness