University participation rate stalls
The growth in the proportion of young people participating in higher education has stalled after years of steady increases, according to new figures.
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Campus Review: Hecs black hole reaches A$500m
By Susan Woodward, for Campus Review
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London lecturers strike over pensions
Lecturers from post-1992 universities in London are joining school teachers in a walk-out to protest against changes to their pensions.
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Ucas ditches PQA plan
Plans for students to apply to university after getting their grades have been abandoned in the face of opposition from schools and universities.
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University donations up but Budget raises worries over future
Universities have once again seen a rise in philanthropic donations, but there are warnings that a cap on tax relief announced in last week’s Budget could stop this progress “dead in its tracks”.
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Student visa system criticised by NAO
The National Audit Office has called for tougher action against overseas students who are breaking visa rules, prompting Universities UK to warn that “legitimate concerns about immigration” should...
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Inside Higher Ed: Bad behaviours
By Kaustuv Basu, for Inside Higher Ed
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Study highlights fees deterrent for postgraduates
Higher fees for UK master’s courses are deterring students from continuing their studies and the deterrent is strongest for those from poorer backgrounds, according to a new study.
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Don’t shrink science in the House of Lords, Cameron told
Four learned societies have written to the prime minister to protest against plans to reduce the resources of the Lords Science and Technology Committee.
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Student’s suspension is a matter for Cambridge, Willetts says
David Willetts has declined to offer any support to a University of Cambridge student who was suspended for two and a half years for heckling him.
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The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Mercedes Camino commends the untangling of atrocities committed during the Franco era
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17 Equations that Changed the World
Charles Seife is eased through mathematical relationships that help to make sense of reality
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The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power
In this dense, if repetitious, study of the modernisation of France, Richard Kuisel tells of a second French resistance. Not to German occupation, but to a foe pervading all of French life, namely...
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Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden
It is a disturbing truth, as Jonathan Clark has pointed out in Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1986), that academics promoting a...
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Memory block: how to keep awkward bits of history alive
Save all, read all? Matthew Reisz on the archivists devising protocols for preserving born-digital data