Applications fall 10 per cent in England
University applications from UK-based students have fallen by 8.7 per cent, official figures show, with those in England falling further still.
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Visa crackdown is ‘devastating’ private colleges
The effect of the government’s student visa policies on private higher education colleges has been “swift and probably even more devastating than was predicted”, according to a think tank.
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Central Saint Martins names new head
A professor of architecture has been appointed as the next head of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
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Les Ebdon named as ‘preferred candidate’ for Offa job
The government has named its preferred candidate to lead the university access watchdog the Office for Fair Access.
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UCL 'no confidence' vote defeated
A motion of no confidence in University College London provost Malcolm Grant tabled by the institution’s students’ union has been defeated.
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Impact of fees hike to be monitored by independent commission
An independent commission has been set up to see if higher tuition fees are deterring poorer students from applying to university.
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Grant letter outlines cut in student number control limits
The government is to clamp down on over-recruitment of students by universities in order to keep costs under control, according to this year’s grant letter.
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Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today's Computers
John Gilbey welcomes clear explanations of the invisible technology in devices we use every day
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Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude?
The admission or denial of entry to foreign nationals is fraught with moral dilemmas, finds Paul Scheffer
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Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism
Without having lived through it first hand, it is hard to grasp the magnitude of the change to daily life in the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the region's Communist regimes in the late 20th...
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Memory, Trauma and History: Essays on Living with the Past
Michael Roth, the author of this exceptional and wide-ranging collection of essays, is the president of Wesleyan University, which, in addition, one imagines, to being a very time-consuming job, also...
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A Case for Irony
James Garvey considers whether human identity is a conscious construct or for ever veiled in mystery
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Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience
The phrases "internal colonisation" and "self-colonisation" have, through overuse, become associated with political correctness. Russia has long been both subject and object of colonisation....
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Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
All mighty historical upheavals are crises of belief and ideas. The present splitting open of neoliberal capitalism is no exception. What happens when an economic system and its political order reach...
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Re-engage public to help fill growing democratic deficit
New chair of Political Studies Association stresses discipline's key social role. Matthew Reisz reports