Essex names new vice-chancellor
The University of Essex has appointed a senior manager at Durham University as its new vice-chancellor.
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FE colleges to win over half of 鈥榗ore and margin鈥 places
Further education colleges are set to receive more student places from the price-based 鈥渕argin鈥 than universities after the initial allocations were revealed by the government.
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Ebdon: 'I would not rule out the nuclear option as Offa head'
Les Ebdon has used his first appearance before MPs as the government鈥檚 preferred choice for the post of director of fair access to lay down the gauntlet to highly-selective universities with 鈥減atchy...
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Immigration minister wants more scrutiny of 鈥榲alue鈥 of foreign students
Expanding the number of international students in the UK is not necessarily a good thing, immigration minister Damian Green has suggested.
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Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Informal links keep society strong but, Frank Furedi finds, we don't make them like we used to
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Edward III
Helen Castor finds a fine-grained narrative on a medieval monarch quite compelling
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Poetry and Popular Protest: Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
"The King-times are fast finishing," wrote Lord Byron of the brief period with which John Gardner's book is concerned - August 1819 to August 1821. Gardner argues that these years, beginning with the...
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Freemasonry & the Enlightenment: Architecture, Symbols, & Influences
In the small but very active international network of historians of Freemasonry, James Stevens Curl is an 茅minence grise. His beautiful publications on history and architecture are manifold, and...
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The White Man's World (Memories of Empire)
Joanna Lewis admires an exploration of attitudes to colonialism and immigration in a crumbling empire
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Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood
Demonstrations and riots have spawned much speculation about young people in the UK. Who are they? What do they want? How do they think, and are protesters representative of their generation?...
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The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age
Jerusalem, Montreal, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin, Paris, New York, Oxford...Oxford? Looking at this line-up of major international cities, Oxford strikes immediately as a very odd choice....
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The Necessity of Errors
Mistakes and misunderstandings often serve to further human knowledge, finds Alex Danchev
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Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary
When viewed against an event that propelled the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s back into media circulation, Vampire Nation possesses a certain currency. The May 2011 arrest of the Serbian former military...
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Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture
The negotiation of the Blitz is still a permanent fixture of British post-war culture at the beginning of a new century. As the living record of eyewitnesses diminishes each year, the place of the...
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Racial antidote to apartheid poison has unwanted side effects
South African institution's positive-discrimination policy stirs up fresh debate. Dan Newling reports