Boundaries between national educational, professional and technical labour markets in Europe are becoming more permeable, according to Kate Purcell of the University of Warwick’s Institute for...
The University of Surrey has become the latest English higher education institution to propose setting an undergraduate tuition fee of £9,000 a year for 2012-13.
The London School of Economics has appointed an interim director following the resignation of Sir Howard Davies over the school’s links with the Libyan regime.
Keele University is planning to shut down its philosophy department, a move critics describe as an “emblematic loss” that would damage the institution’s credibility.
Deborah Longworth looks behind the Facade at the private life of a writer whose words mattered
Forget Stephen Hawking's Brief History: this mind-blowing book is the real deal, Tara Shears enthuses
No one is more knowledgeable about the novel than Christoph Bode. You want to know how novels begin? Ask Bode. You want to know how they end? Ask him. You want to know what happens in the middle?...
The half-century following the Second World War, an era we know as the Cold War, is commonly seen as a period of stability compared with the confused state of the world today. It was a time when...
William Poole evaluates a lively account of the celebrated siblings who did much to map the skies
In his critiques of social capital, economist Ben Fine has referred to the stylised view of management studies as being intellectually lowbrow. There is little doubt that this is a problem, possibly...
Good theses do not necessarily make good books - particularly, perhaps, when the final product has been 10 years or so in the making. And Material Relations, it must be said, almost certainly betrays...
UUK president-elect foresees IT benefits among the coalition carnage. Hannah Fearn reports
'Underestimated' cash gap may lead to a drop in quality or fewer places. Hannah Fearn reports
A Russell Group university is considering the risk that student numbers could fall by up to 15 per cent when the tuition-fee cap rises to £9,000, while another former polytechnic has said it will...
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL• Award winner: Murray Grant• Institution: University of Exeter• Value: £485,000Exploiting the growth-promotion and induced-resistance properties...