Collective insights
"When I first wrote about the student experience of learning in the early 1990s," writes Paul Ramsden, "no one had heard of the idea" ("No thinkable alternative", 5 August).I'd like to gently remind...
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Great escapes
Breaking out of the academy may seem daunting, but scholars' skills transfer to many other jobs. Matthew Reisz talks to four who made it to the other side. But then there is the final move out of the...
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Poetics of fact
Literary journalism and the best book reviews both value the subjective but tie it to hard facts. Susan Greenberg describes how truth can be as creative as fiction, while Christopher Phelps offers 10...
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So clichéd
Mary Evans laments the growing use of 'university-speak' in the academy - otherwise known as a part of the 'knowledge economy'
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12 August 2010
That Eighties feeling - Is higher education heading back into a darker age?
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Tara Brabazon: The Finns have got it right
Finland has recognised broadband access to the internet as essential to citizenship; ߣߣƵ and others still lag unacceptably far behind, writes Tara Brabazon
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Obama: ‘education is the economic issue of our time’
Barack Obama has called on higher education institutions in the US to “retake the lead” in providing the best education the world has to offer.Speaking at the University of Texas at Austin on 9...
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Towards freedom, and more success
The past 10 years have seen their fair share of ups and downs for higher education in Ireland, but Ferdinand von Prondzynski, outgoing president of Dublin City University, leaves his post with more...
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Inside Higher Ed: Out presidents
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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‘Graduate tax’ could prompt brain drain, union warns
The cost of studying for the “key professions” would soar under proposals for graduate contributions tabled by the business secretary, Vince Cable, the main lecturers’ union claims.The University and...
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Is the Israeli academy facing a McCarthyite era?
Political interference could put freedom of speech in universities at stake, says Matthew Reisz
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Funding announced to lead the way to greener pastures
Eleven higher education institutions have been awarded government funding to conduct research into sustainability and energy use in the sector.The Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Book of the Week - Ireland: A History
Don MacRaild salutes a witty, readable and epic journey through the many-hued past of the Emerald Isle
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Stranger From Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness
Robert Eaglestone finds little narrative fire in a gossipy account of a life-shaping relationship
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Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
This book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning study of sport in a global perspective. Focusing largely on the "Big Four" sports in the US (baseball, basketball, American football and ice...