Efforts to secure student feedback 'missing the mark'
Attempts by universities to seek out and respond to student feedback are often inadequate or poorly executed, a new study suggests.
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Teachers urged to challenge academics for role as public intellectuals
Academics should step aside to allow school teachers to become the country’s new “intellectual guardians”, the head of Britain’s teacher training body has said.
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King’s chemistry department rises again
King’s College London has re-opened its chemistry department eight years after concluding that it was unsustainable.
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The returns from a degree: Hesa stats reveal winners and losers
Graduates who left university in 2007 are more likely to be unemployed than those who graduated earlier in the decade, new figures reveal.
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Education expert warns of threat to 'care home students'
Changes to the university funding regime will bring an “abrupt halt” to improvements in the number of young people in care who go on to university, an education expert has warned.
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
All becomes clear in an admirable account of the hunt for the Higgs Boson, writes Athene Donald
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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy
William Poole examines a pioneering anatomist's explorations that advanced medical knowledge
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Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation
In the days following the death of Osama bin Laden, a quote attributed to Martin Luther King pinged about social networking websites and into email inboxes: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious...
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Open access will levy uneven tolls on institutions, study contends
Scholars say 'gold' model will cost research elites dear while others hitch a ride. Andy Wright reports
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How to end bad reviews, for good
Matthew Reisz follows the trail of a fictional scholar’s deadly solution to negative criticism
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Mirror on the bathroom and Hackney on a plate
Geographers look at queer lavatories, GPS, urban food production and humour, writes Matthew Reisz
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Dodging the bombs and bullets to get to campus
Universities in Somalia's capital are surviving against the odds, as David Matthews reports
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News in brief
The NetherlandsScandal hits recruitmentA higher education college in the Netherlands that was embroiled in a corruption scandal last year has seen its student intake fall by almost a third. The...
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Slimming down but still generous with advice
HEA doesn't need subject centres, advocates argue, but critics disagree. Jack Grove reports
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Grant winners
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programmeIN DETAILAward winner: Khalid KhanInstitution: University of LondonValue: £742,794Development and validation of...