Inside Higher Ed: Smoking gun on sexism?
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Lib Dems adopt motion calling for increased science investment
The Liberal Democrats have adopted a motion to build cross-party consensus around large increases to the science and research budget, and to press for a public loans system for postgraduates.
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Cable laments 'mistakes' over fees presentation
Vince Cable, the business secretary, has admitted the government made mistakes in the way it presented tuition fees and in part blamed Lord Browne's 2010 review of university funding for the problem.
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Watchdog encourages more direction for budding entrepreneurs
Students should be offered the chance to learn entrepreneurial skills at university before they enter the job market, according a report by the higher education standards watchdog.
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Reprieve for students as judge says London Met can seek judicial review
A High Court ruling means London Metropolitan University's overseas students will be allowed to continue with their studies, while the university has been granted permission to apply for judicial...
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Salmon of doubt
A demonstration that brain researchers can detect meaningful neural activity in dead fish is among the research projects honoured in yesterday's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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MPs reach consensus against abolition of census
The planned ending of the UK’s national census will harm social science research in both government and the academy, MPs have warned.
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NUS launches third party action in London Met case
The National Union of Students is taking legal action on behalf of students at London Metropolitan University threatened with deportation after the university lost its licence for sponsor student...
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Clegg apology rebuffed by NUS
Student representatives and opposition MPs have rounded on Nick Clegg after the Liberal Democrat leader used a party political broadcast to apologise for breaking a pre-election pledge to oppose...
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Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
"O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!" As readers of Keats will recognise from its title, Shadidha Bari's book takes as its cue the poet's famous exclamation to his friend Benjamin...
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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power
Richard Bosworth ponders the four types of humans and the problems of business hegemony
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Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
Debt. Every day we are exposed to media accounts of the crushing consequences of debt for nations, for families and for individuals. National economies require growth, and growth depends on citizens...
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In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Terror is indefensible and this book is not a defence of the Terror nor, despite the hints and murmurings in Slavoj Žižek's unhelpful introduction, a defence of terrorism. The oddly translated title...
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Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music
David Revill lends an ear to a modern composer's invaluable survey of art's aural frontiers
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In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
At school in Philadelphia in the 1960s, I was taught that "America" was "discovered" by Christopher Columbus in 1492. No one mentioned the statue of the Icelander Thorfinn Karlsefni erected in...