Private providers asked for urgent figures on widening participation
Private providers have been asked to help prepare the government for a key hearing on private higher education just days before it happens
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Manchester Met appoints Malcolm Press as next v-c
Manchester Metropolitan University has appointed a new vice-chancellor – at the second time of asking
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Private providers: maligned and misunderstood?
Alfred Morris argues that alternative providers, criticised by the National Audit Office, aren’t the villains they’re made out to be.
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Welsh government considers response to England postgrad loans
The Welsh government has said it will “look at all the options” before deciding whether to follow England’s lead in introducing postgraduate loans
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THE journalists honoured in CIPR Education Journalism Awards 2014
Times Higher Education reporters have won plaudits for their agenda-setting journalism at a national awards ceremony
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BBC World Service director Peter Horrocks to be next OU v-c
The next vice-chancellor of The Open University will be Peter Horrocks, currently the director of the BBC’s World Service.
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Australia: Coalition takes second run at higher education reform bill
One day after a Senate defeat, the government renews efforts to pass controversial package of changes
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Too many postdocs, not enough research jobs
Fears rise in the US that talented early career scientists are being driven out of the sector because of lack of opportunities
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The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory, and History, by Tara Martin López
Clare Griffiths on the things that were remembered and the things that were forgotten about the crisis
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The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia, by Liam Matthew Brockey
Ana Carolina Hosne on a 17th-century figure who had ‘imperial ambitions’ for the Society of Jesus
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea, by Robert Wald Sussman
Racial structure is cemented by theories on the fixed nature of the ‘other’, finds Yolanda T. Moses
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From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of our Solar System, by John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton
Cait MacPhee on an examination of current theories about our history
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The Republic of Imagination: A Case for Fiction, by Azar Nafisi
Shahidha Bari on a collection of essays concentrating on four American writers
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Loving Literature: A Cultural History, by Deidre Shauna Lynch
Untangling our emotional commitment to books is a complicated affair, says Deborah Rogers
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The Icon Curtain: The Cold War’s Quiet Border, by Yulia Komska
Hester Vaizey on the political and religious divisions across a lesser known part of the Iron Curtain