Boston makes 11th-hour Belfast Project appeal
Boston College has appealed against part of a US court decision forcing it to turn over transcripts of oral histories of sectarian violence to police in Northern Ireland after weeks of international...
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The week in higher education
• Rick Santorum has again denounced US universities as secular "indoctrination mills" as the race for the Republican presidential nomination continues. In an hour-long interview with GBTV's Glenn...
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From where I sit - Culture shock
Sciences Po, the Paris-based social sciences institute, is an anomaly in French higher education because it selects its undergraduates on entry - unlike public universities, which take all comers. To...
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Odds and quads
This sculpture by Francis May Favata depicting a child being lifted from the rubble after a bombing stands on the campus of the University of Plymouth, marking the site of one of the UK's worst...
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Appointments
University of BathMichael FinusAn "idealist" who joined the academy to make a difference on global issues has been appointed professor of environmental economics at the University of Bath. Michael...
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Playing to win at Latin tag
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is only fleetingly charmed by traditional shout-lines
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Michael Frayn Season at Sheffield Theatres
Michael Frayn’s plays are as relevant now as they were when they were first written, says John Bull
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Enigma variations
David Willetts wants more of them, but how much is really known about the UK's private providers? John Morgan uncovers a melange of institutions in a diverse and diversifying sector unbound by caps...
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Weapon of Mass Education
Some v-cs took fright when Les Ebdon stated his readiness to use the 'nuclear option' to enforce access agreements as head of Offa. What does that say about the state of the sector? asks Martin...
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Clear thought about access lost in row (1 of 4)
The controversy over Les Ebdon's appointment as director of the Office for Fair Access has obscured the most important question: what is Offa for?For 2012 entry, it has collected about 0 access...
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Clear thought about access lost in row (2 of 4)
The debate around the appointment of the next director of fair access risks diverting attention from the successful efforts of all universities and colleges to widen access to higher education....
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Clear thought about access lost in row (3 of 4)
Might journalistic propriety have been better served in last week's issue by a bracketed reference, latched in place somewhere among the flurry of pieces on and opinions about Les Ebdon, to the fact...
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Clear thought about access lost in row (4 of 4)
Mike Goldstein's extravagant encomium for Les Ebdon misses the point (Letters, 23 February). Ebdon is on record as advocating that some students should be admitted to universities by having their A-...
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Consent agenda
The story of the Boston College subpoenas is a complicated one and understandably THE's account is incomplete ("Law and academy clash in the long shadow of the gun", 16 February). For instance, the...
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If it ain't broke, don't bin it
Timothy Gowers recently wrote about his decision not to work with Elsevier and his wish for an alternative to the academic journal as a tool for evaluating, sharing and preserving scholarship ("...