Lincoln, by Steven Spielberg
Cinematic treatment of the Great Emancipator offers insights into changing attitudes towards the US presidency and the parallels between its 16th and 44th incumbents

Cinematic treatment of the Great Emancipator offers insights into changing attitudes towards the US presidency and the parallels between its 16th and 44th incumbents

Hungary’s higher education reforms are facing fierce student opposition, as Kata Ámon reports

Ucas data demonstrate wide-ranging impact of fees and funding changes. John Morgan reports
Students at some of the UK’s leading university computer science departments are going head-to head to prove their cyber security skills by battling it out in an online code-breaking challenge.
New College of the Humanities, the privately funded higher education institution charging fees of £18,000 a year, plans to open a free school in partnership with a private school firm.

The University of Bristol was one of the biggest winners in the first year of higher fees, expanding its new student cohort by 28 per cent, while London Metropolitan University saw its intake shrink...
Staff levels at UK higher education institutions have dropped for the second consecutive year, new figures show.
A drop in student numbers of 30,000 this year could cost the country more than £6 billion over the next 40 years, according to a new report.
A sideways look at the week’s big stories

Oft-criticised scholarship scheme’s riches will now follow the poor, BIS states. Jack Grove reports

Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism
Perhaps the reason US citizens are not knowledgeable about the US Constitution is because, as Alan Ryan notes, “the least well-off 80 per cent of the population exercises no influence on the policies...
Departing head of Nottingham’s infections centre calls for redoubled efforts. Matthew Reisz writes

Mark Harper shares with John Morgan some good and bad news for the sector on immigration policy

Matthew Reisz on the law centre marking a decade of human rights battles in a new university home