Removing an honour
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cumbria’s chair of governors exits in wake of critical report
The University of Cumbria’s chair of governors is to step down later this year after an independent report criticised the “shortcomings” of the troubled institution’s board.Peter Ballard, who was not...
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Imperial’s acting head made permanent
Sir Keith O’Nions has been appointed rector of Imperial College London.The former government adviser has been acting head of the institution since January and will serve as rector until 2013. Sir Roy...
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Court quashes visa rules barring basic-English speakers from language courses
Tougher rules on English-language requirements for foreign students that it was claimed would cost universities £1 billion a year have been quashed by the High Court.Changes brought in by the Labour...
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Forget prestige: science funding is an economic matter
David Willetts today used his first major speech on science policy to emphasise the “overwhelming” economic case for science funding. The universities and science minister said it was “inevitable” in...
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Academy investment ‘absolutely essential’ as foreign rivals up the ante
Claims that there are too many graduates in society and that public money should be taken away from universities are “short-sighted, deceiving and Luddite”, the head of a Scottish university has said...
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Death knell sounds for final-salary pensions as employers’ proposals win casting vote
Final-salary pensions are likely to be abolished for new entrants to the Universities Superannuation Scheme, raising the prospect of national strike action by the University and College Union. At a...
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Super-campus booster
France is using governance reform and investment to push its universities up the league tables. Will it work? asks Paul Benneworth
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Book of the week: When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China will Save Mankind - or Destroy it
Kerry Brown on a sobering snapshot of a ravenous giant whose new prosperity could bring global tragedy
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The Secret World of Doing Nothing
Fred Inglis searches for insights but ends up bored by personal accounts of the absence of activity
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Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century. By Sheila Rowbotham. Verso, 312pp, £17.99. ISBN 9781844676132. Published 3 May 2010For 30 years, Sheila Rowbotham has been at the...
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The Canon: A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
When A Biographical Dictionary of Film was first published in 1975, critical reaction ranged from delight to outrage, often within the same review. Describing it in Sight and Sound as "the sort of...
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Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games
Steve Redhead on an uneasy mix of gaming-culture study and European academic discourse
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British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years
"The People in between/Looked underdone and harassed/And out of place and mean,/And horribly embarrassed." Lawrence Napper doesn't actually quote Hilaire Belloc's poem The Garden Party. But he well...
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Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War
It is said that you can't judge a book by its cover, and for many who pick up Stephen Neff's Justice in Blue and Gray, that axiom will be challenged. With its blue-gray metallic background and its...