Through 'the Keyhole' utopia
Tino Sehgal's art installation This Progress offered something rare: a space where participating academics could converse without goals in mind. Rachel Adams on a precious experience
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3 June 2010
Does my brain look big in this? - A little applied research can get results
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Tara Brabazon: Hold it to teach it
Having spent years earning the right to teach undergraduates, Tara Brabazon knows very well that ‘experience’ is nothing like a degree
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Hertfordshire appoints new vice-chancellor
Quintin McKellar, principal of the Royal Veterinary College, will take over from Tim Wilson when he retires, writes Sarah Cunnane
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From taboo to hot topic
By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed
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UCU vows to fight government’s ‘ignorance policy’
Union decries coalition’s £1.5bn cuts to universities and £8bn gift to business. Simon Baker reports
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Money down the silo
Universities overlook ways to make savings simply because they do not focus on institution-wide schemes, argues Microsoft’s Ray Fleming
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Chancellor follows v-c out at Gloucestershire
Lord Carey leaves post with ‘great sadness’. Simon Baker reports
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Kingston v-c to step down in December
Sir Peter Scott departs ahead of scheduled retirement to take up post elsewhere, reports Simon Baker
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Degrees and despair: graduates gloomy about jobs
Only a third expect to find work, study finds. Hannah Fearn reports
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UCL provost takes pay cut in face of ‘acute financial pressures’
Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London, responds to the government’s cuts in university budgets with tight housekeeping measures. John Gill reports
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Cable ‘taken aback’ by recent v-c pay rises
Business secretary urges restraint and calls for the sector to halt ‘salary escalation at the top level’. Simon Baker reports
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Book of the week: Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism
Is the pristine wilderness extinct - or was it only ever a myth? Jules Pretty on the dichotomies of humans and our habitat
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Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, by Daniel Dorling
This analysis of elitism is not new, says Fiona Taylor, but neither are the claims made in elitism's favour
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Understanding the International Student Experience
It is rare that international education in the English-speaking countries becomes manifest as the "rich intercultural experience" that marketing brochures like to talk about. A persistent finding in...