Bunch of rankers
Last week, THE published its long-awaited World University Rankings - and also reported rankings of a different sort (The week in higher education, 4 October). According to a psychology journal paper...
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The Bologna chorus: harmony from two tones of same note
Higher education has room for both high ideals and pragmatism, Matthew Reisz hears in Bologna
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• Being human resources director at much-ridiculed security firm G4S must be difficult, leaving one yearning to work somewhere with a spotless reputation - the University of Oxford, perhaps. Julian...
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Leader: REF must ensure fair play for all
The focus on world-leading work could turn a generation of unsubmitted researchers into second-class citizens
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From where I sit - Blessed with intellectual roots
Nine years ago, when I started teaching at the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) in Berlin - ECLA of Bard since its merger with Bard College last year - I thought I had landed on the moon (I...
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Odds and quads
These are among the approximately 200 chairs on display at the University of Helsinki until the end of the year as part of an exhibition titled Seats of Learning.
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Appointments
School of Advanced Study, LondonColin BlakemoreWorld-renowned neuroscientist Colin Blakemore has been appointed director of the Institute of Philosophy's Centre for the Study of the Senses at the...
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The importance of being useless
The tide of instrumentalism threatens to engulf the UK’s higher education sector, but could a new wave of liberal arts programmes signal a return to the ancient ideal of learning for its own sake?...
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Declaration of independence
The Ivy League’s autonomy has allowed its members to conquer the world. The UK must loosen the reins on its universities and establish an equivalent, Terence Kealey argues
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Call to waive fees for Syrians in UK
David Matthews reports on bid to show clemency to PhD students as cash from Damascus dries up
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11 October 2012
Three cheers for autonomy - The case for a UK Ivy League
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Inside Out Festival
The Inside Out festival aims to fling open the doors of the academy and allow scholars’ work to roam free in London and engage with its many publics, writes Matthew Reisz
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Fifty shades of green
Saving energy is an all-consuming affair for Christopher Bigsby
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Hugh Bentall, 1920-2012
The UK's first professor of cardiac surgery has died. Hugh Henry Bentall was born in Worthing, Sussex on 28 April 1920 and graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1942. He started his...