The year in higher education quotes 2013
Christmas is over and winter’s grip will tighten in the grey weeks ahead. The only crumb of consolation offered by the New Year is the chance to take stock of the past 12 months and to learn some...

Christmas is over and winter’s grip will tighten in the grey weeks ahead. The only crumb of consolation offered by the New Year is the chance to take stock of the past 12 months and to learn some...

Student Rights’ agenda questioned by LSE, Birkbeck, Goldsmiths unions

The European Commission released the latest data on the number of animals used in science last month. Across Europe, researchers used 11.5 million animals in 2011, down half a million compared with...

Research scientists would prefer to align work with own values, study reveals

The neglected, inaccessible land beside arterial routes is the subject of an exhibition and book

Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick discusses life and scholarly work at the heart of the Soviet system

On 18 November, Brandeis University, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts that describes itself as the only non-sectarian Jewish-sponsored institution in the US, suspended its partnership with Al-...

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

We speak to the professor of international higher education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Plus the latest higher education appointments

A leading academic expert on Chinese music has died

Kevin Fong’s method to raise present standards

The 21st-century reincarnation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation is our version of Superman, argues Fern Riddell

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Omar Malik concurs with the considered advice on decision-making but seeks more understanding about the process

Jonathan Mirsky on the politics and economics of the relationship between rapidly developing China and stagnating Japan