Film review: Jane Eyre
Despite reservations about yet another version of a classic story, Duncan Wu enjoys a faithful rendition
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TV review: Nature's Miracle Babies
Gary Day sees parallels between the 19th-century novel and anthropomorphic tales of rare animals
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Paul Wilkinson, 1937-2011
A leading international expert on terrorism, equally adept at offering his insights to academic audiences, policymakers or the public, has died.Paul Wilkinson was born in Harrow, Middlesex and...
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THE Scholarly Web
Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.
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Campus round-up
University of RoehamptonValuable depositsLemur droppings may hold the key to the survival of Madagascar's unique rainforests. A new study by academics at the University of Roehampton found that the...
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Odds and quads
This glass and steel cross, which now stands at the heart of the University of Chester's main campus on Parkgate Road, was originally created as an anguished response to the political climate of the...
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Brazil invests to expand tropic of learning into rural areas...
...but some question the focus and quality in plans to add more than 800,000 places, writes Paul Jump
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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8 September 2011
Dead as a… - Is the writing on the wall for journalism?
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Nine grand means drop in demand, study finds
Research that suggests university enrolment could fall by at least 5 per cent due to higher tuition fees has been seized upon by the National Union of Students as a “stark warning” that the...
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Students' weakness in maths leaves academics counting the cost
Physics and engineering academics are having to teach students who are unprepared for their courses because of “a gap in knowledge” on maths, the Institute of Physics has warned.
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BPP undercuts universities on fees
The UK’s only for-profit provider with degree-awarding powers has undercut almost all English universities with its tuition fees for 2012-13 by planning to charge undergraduates between £12,000 and £...
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Edinburgh’s 'rest-of-UK' fees head north to £36,000
The University of Edinburgh has announced it will charge undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to £36,000 for a degree.
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Inside Higher Ed: Relationship problems
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed
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World University Rankings 2011-12 methodology revealed
The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings is today unveiled by ߣߣƵ, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday 6 October 2011.