Save Moon - scrap the Sun
Gary Day, reviewing Do We Really Need the Moon? ("Satellite in my eyes", 10 February), mentions that the government might abolish the Moon on a strictly utilitarian basis. I believe that this would...
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Panel games
Much of the Ivy League eschews interviews when filling posts, says Amanda Goodall, and UK universities keen to hire the best should follow suit. But Richard J. Evans, appointed to a chair at...
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Film review: Fair Game
Duncan Wu finds a CIA thriller based on real events in Bush's White House more compelling than fiction
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TV review: The Chinese Are Coming
Gary Day worries that the increasing presence of China in Africa might be history repeating itself
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Campus round-up
London School of EconomicsCredit line for post-crisis studyA hedge-fund manager has donated £2.5 million to fund new research and teaching on Europe's role in the post-financial crisis world. The...
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Odds and quads: The Camberwell Collection of Applied Arts
This pinwheel windmill, intended as the centrepiece for a table, has discs set at exactly the right angle to respond to the slightest currents of air.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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17 February 2011
Happy. Unhappy. Other. - How do students rate the quality of their undergraduate experience?
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Only way is down for state funding, think tank warns global academy
Public funding for higher education among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may have reached its peak, according to a study published today.
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Campaigners claim victory as visa shake-up prioritises scholars
Academics are to be prioritised in the government’s shake-up of the visa system.
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Cambridge to reconsider cutting bursaries to fund fee waiver
Senior academics at the University of Cambridge will rethink a proposal to create a large tuition fee waiver for poor students by slashing bursaries after arguments against the plan were heard by the...
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Urgent action required to secure future of UK science
The Royal Society has called for drastic measures, including a fundamental reform of the A-level system, to break the “self-perpetuating cycle” which has resulted in the UK producing too few science...
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Student financial aid boosted in US Budget
Higher education proved to be one of the few winners in the latest US federal Budget, which today set out a 10-year plan to make $1.1 trillion (£687 billion) in deficit savings.
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Objectors fail to block controversial speakers at LSE debate
More than 100 UK-based German students and academics have signed an open letter objecting to the choice of panellists for a debate at the London School of Economics later today.
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Inside Higher Ed: The $10,000 question
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed