Royal Holloway to validate new Pearson degree
Education giant Pearson has signed a partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London which will see the college validating the company’s new business degree.
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Confusion reigns over 'retirement' of Abertay Dundee principal
A dispute has broken out at the University of Abertay Dundee after its suspended principal denied that he had retired.
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Inside Higher Ed: Whose agenda?
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Public debate on future of Classics department ‘will only worsen situation’, principal claims
The principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, has been accused of attempting to stifle public debate about the future of the college’s Classics department.
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Graduate employment up, but salaries stagnate
The number of new graduates finding employment has risen for the first time since the beginning of the credit crunch, official figures show.
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Lecturers march as UCU members join thousands on pensions strike
Members of the University and College Union were among an estimated 10,000 striking workers who marched through central London in protest at public sector pension cuts.UCU members in post-1992...
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Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
Willem Drees considers a passionate argument that humans are driven by more than mere survival
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Why Marx Was Right
Fred Inglis looks for some contemporary comment in a robust defence against the critics of Marxism
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The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors
If there is anything more disturbing than injustice perpetrated by fanaticism, it is the attempts by fanatics to excuse their abuse of power. In this compelling study of medieval inquisitors in...
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Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study
The Browne Review suggested that universities exist to "generate and diffuse ideas, safeguard knowledge, catalyse innovation, inspire creativity, enliven culture, stimulate regional economies and...
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Quantum Physics for Poets
Graham Farmelo hoped for more pizzazz on an entry-level tour of science's stranger shores
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Front Page Economics
Since 2008, taxpayers burdened by debt that they did not create have learned that the global market economy is not rational. The mechanics of credit derivatives remain incomprehensible to most of us...
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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
In 1954, less than a decade after the fall of the Third Reich, the great Italian-Jewish historian Arnaldo Momigliano told an important international classical congress that Cornelius Tacitus' brief...
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News in Brief
United StatesBuilding bridges across the worldNew York has hosted a conference of the International Association of University Presidents, where university leaders from more than 80 nations discussed...
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Sowing seeds of freedom in the 'Arab Spring'
Scheme aims to bring 100 PhD students to UK to influence region's leadership. Paul Jump writes