This is a very unexpected book. Brad Gregory's first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, was much admired: a detailed, scholarly work that stayed fairly firmly in...
After Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion comes the reply. Wham bam! Rupert Sheldrake takes on the "truth-finding religion" of science in general and "ten dogmas" of the 21st-century worldview in...
Supermarkets' consumer-led strategies proposed as a 'model for institutions'. Jack Grove reports
Government departments'Keep universities under BIS'The author of a major review into the future of collaborations between universities and business has suggested that higher education should stay in...
Staff and students 'pinching themselves' over monarch's choice of launch pad. Paul Jump writes
The future of open access to academic work was high on the agenda as researchers and leading scientific publishers came face to face at a debate in Oxford.The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and...
Open courseware is a shop window and a pressure valve, Delft leader argues. Jack Grove reports
UCLA hopes campus culture shock will ease as overseas cash boosts income. Phil Baty reports
A union representing Irish academics has welcomed a landmark legal decision that removes an incentive for universities to employ staff on fixed-term contracts in a bid to avoid larger redundancy pay-...
United StatesCleared, but Muslim row not overA US academic who posted comments critical of Muslims on a personal Facebook page has been cleared of discrimination by his university. Maurice Eisenstein...
David Matthews reports on ambitious plans to modernise the country's post-Soviet academy
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILConnected Communities programme• Award winner: Andrew Miles• Institution: University of Manchester• Value: £1,204,673Understanding everyday participation -...
The developing world's need for higher education, says Martin Bean, can be met by the digital delivery of open educational resources
1994 Group fires shot across bow of admissions service's proposed reforms. Jack Grove reports
The Charity Commission will not automatically block the sale of the College of Law - a deal expected to create a model for the purchase of universities in whole or in part by for-profit private...