Inside Higher Ed: The fall of the faculty
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed

By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been jailed for 16 months for a rampage at a student fees protest.
Around two-thirds of graduates finishing university last year found jobs within six months of leaving, a slight improvement on the year before.
The University of East London has parted company with a researcher following revelations that he was found guilty of research misconduct at two previous universities.
Seventeen English universities face having to win back at least 1,000 full-time undergraduate places as a result of the government’s proposals to create competition for top-achieving students in 2012...

The story of the painstaking creation of an influential work is a revelation to Lucy Wooding

An attempt to write a 'great book' in the old style is ambitious but misguided, says Robert Eaglestone
I have a slight obsession with getting cold and wet, for no particularly good reason, and have often been encouraged to wonder why by the less masochistic members of my family. This usually occurs...
When it comes to Shakespeare, we're all amateurs. Jacques Derrida wished to live 200 years to become a Shakespeare expert. Michael Dobson hasn't lived that long, but with four centuries of...
Clive Bloom celebrates a bravura account of the power of flowers and the politics of a fertile earth
In an important new book that richly analyses the causes, course and consequences of the First World War, Jeremy Black asks why it remains the "most misunderstood major conflict in history". He draws...
"In the early morning of Friday 26 April 1816," David Ellis' book begins, "Lord Byron landed in Ostend." Everyone knows what comes next: according to John William Polidori, Byron "fell like a...
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Report highlights required changes to prospectus and online statements. David Matthews reports

Aimhigher boss calls for university commitment as programme nears end. Jack Grove reports