Graduates entrepreneurs with “world-class innovative ideas” will be allowed to remain in the UK beyond their university studies, as the government responds to criticisms of its new visa regime for...
By Mitch Smith, for Inside Higher Ed
University and College Union members in newer universities will be given a “consultative ballot” on whether to reject the government’s latest pensions offer and strike again.
Leading figures from higher education in the UK and US have agreed to serve on a major new independent commission looking at the future of the sector in England.
Sarah Toulalan lauds a look at how carnal crime and punishment gave way to a stress on private consent
Impressions of an 'unknowable' China at the end of the Cultural Revolution fascinate Kerry Brown
Robert Browning remains an important standard against which other dramatic poets are measured. We recognise Browning primarily for the dramatic monologue, a poetic form that lends itself well to...
The "medical humanities", the area in which the author, Michael Mack, now works, is a fairly new cross-disciplinary field: in the UK, King's College London and the universities of Durham and...
Moshe Zeidner finds an analysis of Jewish success scores well on IQ but downplays social factors
This is virtually a social history of modern Britain, told by someone who should know what he is talking about. Malcolm Dean joined The Guardian more than 40 years ago and was for many years its...
Sasha Roseneil is unswayed by a chronicle of intimacy that fails to reach the heart of the matter
Perhaps it is the loneliness of the studio that has traditionally encouraged artists to hang out in social and stylistic groups. Think of the Impressionists and their Montmartre cafés, or the...
This is an original and timely work, retelling the story of the development of the concept of human rights through the eyes of the "world spectator" and her confrontation with images of the suffering...
Coalition desire to expand range of copyright-free material angers academics. Matthew Reisz reports
High-profile debut in the academy holds no fear for Reading's v-c. Interview by Jack Grove