Distance learning specialist the Open University will undercut every higher education institution in England in 2012 by charging fees of £5,000 a year for degrees from September 2012, it has been...
A committee of MPs has criticised the way in which the government cut the Education Maintenance Allowance, which supported poor 16-19 year olds in education.
The higher education sector in the UK is undergoing “a strategic shift” in the way it thinks about internationalisation, according to a report published today.
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...