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High notes need to be balanced

The ‘golden triangle’ is a ringing success in the World University Rankings, but the UK needs every region to play its part

The week in higher education - 3 October 2013

“Bad boy” footballer Joey Barton has started a philosophy degree at the University of Roehampton, The Independent reported on September. The 31-year-old midfielder, who is back with Queens Park...

The crowd’s impact could stretch to funding

OU report dubbing 2013 the ‘year of the crowd’ pinpoints emerging technologies set to revolutionise sector

Credit notice: every little rejection helps

“Now you just fought one hell of a fightAnd I know you hate me, and you got the rightTo kill me now, and I wouldn’t blame you if you do.But ya ought to thank me, before I die,For the gravel in ya...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 3 October 2013

Shades of grey among the eBay ‘Lowrys’

Richard Howells’ online hunt for ‘masterpieces’ may be a playful act of irony, but it also questions the nature of artistic authenticity

‘We’re only here for the REF’

“I find your imputation extremely offensive.” That was how Brian Bryan, our Deputy Head of REF Strategy, responded to the suggestion from Poppletonian reporter Keith Ponting (30) that our university’...

Musings on Mortality: From Tolstoy to Primo Levi, by Victor Brombert

Robin Feuer Miller on an analysis of writers’ perceptions of death

Course corrections for a revolutionary age

An ‘unconference’ inspires Kevin Fong to rethink his lecture material

My new academic year: day one

Emma Rees offers a time-sensitive account of the start of term

3 October 2013

World University Rankings 2013-2014

Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why it Matters, by Judith A. Levine

Angelia R. Wilson on welfare, women and unresolved political tension

The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London, by Hannah Greig

Clare Brant on the truly dedicated followers of 18th-century fashion

US for-profits must up their game to regain lost ground

High tuition, bad press and recovering economy cited in falling student numbers

Europe faces longer wait for single market in research

Academics still hidebound by national rules, Commission finds