The virtue of verse
How seriously are we to take the meaning of poetry? George Watson considers the costs of seeing poetry as largely spontaneous and self-expressive
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Get in shape: lose the fat
Clive Bloom sheds few tears for Middlesex's strangely underpopulated philosophy department - or any other corners of an academy short on recruits and long overdue for the axe. He argues that to save...
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29 July 2010
Boom then bust? - UK may pay high price for escalating overseas fees
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Tara Brabazon: Take note as another learning discipline slides away
After exam boards have been conducted, letters signed and mailed to students, external examiners thanked and supplementary assessments created, there is a moment – a fracture in time – where...
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US fights to take back the power in the overseas market
Universities use cash, partnerships and recruiters to make up lost ground. Jon Marcus reports
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A Critique of the Cuts
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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UKBA reimposes language restrictions on foreign applicants
The UK Border Agency has reintroduced language restrictions on overseas students applying for visas, a move that could have knock-on effects for universities.
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BPP wins university college status as David Willetts acts on pledge to boost private providers
BPP College of Professional Studies has become the first private provider to be awarded the university college title for more than 30 years.
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National strike looms as union says signals on talks with employers are ‘not good’
Higher education’s first national industrial action since 2006 is “very likely” and plans are being drawn up for a September ballot, the University and College Union has said.
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Fredrics cleared of harassment charge
An academic has been cleared of harassing his former vice-chancellor via a “satirical whistleblower website” – but has been convicted of a public order offence relating to a meeting between the two.
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Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior
Zhanna Reznikova examines the world of numerate and community-minded six-legged wonders
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Allies of the State: China's Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change
Are business people from the private sector agents for change? If they were, then the Communist Party in China could be in trouble. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
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The Canon: Education and the Working Class by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden
When I left school at the age of 16 with no educational qualifications to speak of - two CSE grade 1s, not even O levels - I began work for a public-sector employer who sent me to a further education...
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A tale of two Frances
Oxford historian Ruth Harris' career makes her ideally suited to revisit the scandal that tore French society apart in the 1890s, writes Matthew Reisz
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A Certain Share of Low Cunning: A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839
Early policemen have long been seen as bumblers. But they were undervalued, finds Stephen Wade