Opinion: Let us leave no stone unturned to meet student demand
The Government must find a way to fund additional places, says Pam Tatlow, and there are options
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Prepare for impact, universities told
Hefce head says get set for REF by gathering evidence of how research pays off, Zoë Corbyn writes
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STFC cuts hit research centre budgets
Short-term reductions preface further funding losses. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Michael Jackson: The Man and the Myth
In a secular and anti-heroic age, the devotion of fans to celebrities is that of believers to gods. Expect the death of the god-like King of Pop to be denied, says myth scholar Robert A. Segal.
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Hefce considered ‘nuclear option’ over London Met
Dissolution was considered by funding chiefs as a ‘last resort’. Melanie Newman reports
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Researchers welcome Science and Technology Committee’s comeback
But lack of dedicated oversight for university policy worries v-cs. Rebecca Attwood and Zoë Corbyn report
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Academics arrested as Iran crackdown escalates
Seventy reformist scholars are detained by the authorities, writes John Gill
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Book of the week: Frames of War
Angela McRobbie finds hope for a new politics in an examination of image, others and us
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Quoting Death in Early Modern England
Peter J. Smith deciphers how commemorative texts reflect historical and religious influences
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The Myth of Digital Democracy
There's something about democracy and the internet that brings out the cranks. The ever-swelling internet punditocracy includes an unusually large number of charlatans and chancers, peddling stories...
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The Canon: The Making of the English Working Class. By E.P. Thompson
My task was to identify a book of such influence that the field of cultural studies would be diminished by its absence. While pausing at Raymond Williams' The Long Revolution, Richard Hoggart's The...
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Right-thinking aesthetic
Matthew Reisz talks to Roger Scruton, the UK's leading conservative intellectual, about academia, music, politics and his latest book, Beauty
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
Alec Ryrie enters the world of Icelandic farting magic and phallic-Buddhist Rosicrucianism
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Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics
Jeremy Gilbert got the job that Marx wanted but didn't get. The young Marx had mentors, colleagues and aspiring peers in German universities publishing critiques and polemics on the political culture...
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The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency
Roger Morgan learns of the diplomatic deal-making that made the eurozone a reality