From where I sit: Noble quest for knowledge
How do you become an academic and a scholar? Usually, those who aim to research and teach are privileged with a formal education and spend their lives in academia. It is virtually impossible to come...
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News in brief
KenyaBonds: licence to expandKenya plans to sell 10 billion shillings (?79.5 million) of bonds to finance an expansion of its universities that would stop students from being turned away owing to...
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This is no time to cut the strings of Britain's economic parachute
University research generates ideas and keeps the country competitive - so we must protect its funding, argues Paul Wellings
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History round-up
A Concise Companion to HistoryEditor: Ulinka RublackEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 480Price: ?25.00ISBN 9780199291212As old certainties in the discipline prove less secure,...
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Yale president stands up for the blue skies
Richard C. Levin says Truman-era principles have profound lessons for the future of research funding. Phil Baty reports
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Branching out
Via study-away sites, local partnerships, portals and fully fledged overseas campuses, ambitious universities in the West are increasingly keen to take root elsewhere. John Morgan asks how the...
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THE World University Rankings
探花视频's World University Rankings have become something of a benchmark for governments and higher education experts worldwide.In his inaugural address last year as president of...
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Giving cause for hope
As public funding shrinks, fundraising becomes crucial for universities. Adrian Beney examines how UK institutions are approaching the challenge and what they can learn from US methods
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From where I sit: Repulsion and attraction
Australian universities are worried that bad publicity is putting off international students. Such students are lucrative business and one of the reasons they flocked to Australia in the past was...
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The Queen's shilling is no sovereign remedy for a world-class sector
Kenneth Baker calls on universities to seek financial independence from the state, and for the state to handle a precious asset with care
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Golden opportunities
The creative industries must be given as much support as STEM subjects to keep the UK at the forefront of the world economy, argues David Docherty
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Unhappy campus: heaven knows we're miserable now
Compared with global peers, UK academics are most negative about work. Paul Jump reports
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Published this week
ENGINEERINGBecoming an Engineer in Public Universities: Pathways for Women and MinoritiesEdited by Kathryn M. Borman, professor of anthropology, University of South Florida; Rhoda H. Halperin,...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to MahlerBy Mark Ellis, theory, analysis and musicology tutor, University of Huddersfield...
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What is Migration History?
Author: Christiane Harzi and Dirk Hoerder with Donna GabacciaEdition: FirstPublisher: Polity PressPages: 181Price: ?55.00 and ?13.99ISBN: 9780745643366This short book aims to provide a comprehensive...