REF Pilot: humanities impact is evident and can be measured
Judy Simons declares that the cultural and societal benefits of the arts are transformative, calculable and must be advertised

Judy Simons declares that the cultural and societal benefits of the arts are transformative, calculable and must be advertised

Patterns of migration - The high-flying leaders who leave the nest in search of foreign challenges

Thousands of students and academics took to the streets of London on 10 November to protest about cuts to higher education funding and proposals to raise the tuition fee cap to £9,000.
@Lord_Browne gained a following by poking fun at UK higher education’s upheavals. Now silenced by Twitter, he tells Sarah Cunnane about real universities, the trouble with students and how many...

Thousands of students and lecturers will march through central London on 10 November in protest at government cuts to universities and colleges and a hike in tuition fees.
The University of Nottingham is in talks about creating a new campus in China – its second in the country and its third overseas campus.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Obama rallies Cinderella sector to unemployment battle. Jon Marcus reports from the White House
The Royal Society Prize for Science Books stimulates public interest and is too important to be allowed to disappear, says Maggie Philbin

The Islamic renaissance laid the foundations for much modern thinking, writes Emilie Savage-Smith

Jim Wild takes a whistle-stop tour of the most mind-blowing destinations in our celestial backyard
All readers of this magazine must be aware of the global warming, in recent years, of the dispute between those minded to bring their religious convictions firmly into politics and those determined...
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural MaterialismEdited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan SinfieldPolitical Shakespeare appeared in 1985, alongside a similarly focused collection of essays,...
Richard Rose admires the clarity with which Europe's growing doubts about integration are outlined
As the internet has become not only an important news source, but a force that is rapidly merging traditional news platforms, television, print media and subjective postings, it is somewhat...