From where I sit - Autonomy, but at a cost
The idea of what a university should be is changing in India. This clearly emerges in the concept note for the 2010 Universities for Innovation Bill. This seeks to facilitate the creation of a...
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Tom Behan, 1957-2010
A campaigning academic expert on organised crime in Italy has died.Tom Behan was born into an Irish working-class family in London on 22 June 1957. He attended school in Middlesex but spent almost a...
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Research intelligence - Plugging in to India
New collaborative links between Britain and the subcontinent will bring technological gains to both, writes Cat Davies
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Drones? No - students are the bee's knees
It is both inaccurate and uncharitable to suggest that today's undergraduates are "deferring responsibility and delaying maturity" ("No creative buzz from the drones", 2 September).The Council of...
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Unfinished business
The desirability of the relationship between undergraduate education and the national economy has been acknowledged in the UK since at least the 1963 Robbins report. It is often forgotten that the...
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The Stepford academy 1
"Just a few rotten apples?" (2 September) accurately and fully addresses the three major issues frequently associated with US for-profit institutions of "higher learning": academic integrity; student...
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The Stepford academy 2
At the risk of sending ߣߣÊÓƵ's readership to sleep in the calm before the new academic year's storm, I would like to urge that fundamental changes to the way that universities are...
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Contemporary observations
I am always pleased to see evidence of Mass Observation's (MO) enduring appeal, not only as a historical resource, but also as an inspiration for new research ("Researchers aim to capture a day in...
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Public-private balance
There is clear concern in the views expressed by Lord Baker ("The Queen's shilling is no sovereign remedy for a world-class sector", 9 September). Universities need both state support and autonomy:...
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Break this cosy cartel
It is hard to understand what Paul Benneworth thinks a functioning higher education market should look like ("Higher fees could be the undoing of England's universities", 2 September). He clearly...
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Stakhanov lives
My highly esteemed, Stakhanovite but far too modest colleague Adrian Furnham fails to point out that his production in 2009 of 30 papers and three books represents one of his lean years ("For love or...
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Fantastic voyager
Sir Terry Pratchett is one of the world's most successful authors. He talks to John Gilbey about auto-didacticism, the tyranny of higher education and whether writers are born, not made
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16 September 2010
World University Rankings - The long-awaited 2010-2011 rankings
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Vox populi: nine out of 10 Brits think academy should escape cuts
The British public believes the government should preserve funding for universities despite its efforts to slash the nation’s budget deficit, according to a national opinion poll.
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Inside Higher Ed: Women lead in doctorates
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed