US pay rises fail to match inflation
Full-time academic staff in US universities continued to receive below-inflation pay rises in 2011-12, a report has found.
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Thinktank’s plans to spread university news to the poor
Bolder measures are required to ensure students from poorer families have access to information about university courses, a thinktank has said.
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Government’s sums must be right…or else, says Hefce head
The head of England’s funding council has warned that government calculations on student loan repayments “have got to turn out to be robust” if the new higher education system is to be financially...
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Four-fifths of institutions set to spend at least £5m on estates ‘wow factor’
Almost eight in ten UK universities will embark on major capital projects worth more than £5 million in the next year as they face up to fiercer competition for students under the new regime.
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Language: The Cultural Tool
Kerstin Hoge takes a trip into the heart of functionalism with a maverick iconoclast
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An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
A reminder of pedagogy's power to reach beyond the logic of capital enthuses Shahidha Bari
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On Sacrifice
Philosopher Moshe Halbertal distinguishes two kinds of sacrifice: sacrifice to and sacrifice for. Sacrifice "to", which is older, means a gift, as in the giving of an animal or even a human to a god...
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Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research
In this socio-historical account of the US' federally mandated institutional review boards, or IRBs, Laura Stark begins by offering an ethnographic analysis of the "knowledge experts" who sit on the...
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan dips her beak into the inner life of our mysterious feathered friends
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The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth
The media industry has unquestionably been transformed by advertisers' ability to collect data at the individual level about internet users and use it to design more effective ad campaigns. Here,...
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Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century
People who dwell in architectural masterpieces generally ignore the design's importance in their day-to-day pursuits. Here, Christopher Loss shows why academics should stop ignoring the higher...
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China or Japan: Which Will Lead Asia?
The fortunes of East Asia's two great powers are inextricably linked, argues Kerry Brown
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The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
When one thinks about what to do to combat climate change, the answer seems obvious: take steps to reduce the use of fossil carbon. Improve engine efficiency, switch to alternative sources of...
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The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray
This isn't a book by Noam Chomsky, it isn't really composed of interviews, and it contains no "science of language".Yes, 44 per cent of it contains transcribed conversations between James McGilvray...
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Just like that, the hand is faster than the brain
Neuroscientists use illusions to illuminate what's going on inside our heads. Matthew Reisz reports