Yale president stands up for the blue skies
Richard C. Levin says Truman-era principles have profound lessons for the future of research funding. Phil Baty reports

Richard C. Levin says Truman-era principles have profound lessons for the future of research funding. Phil Baty reports
Changes ahead on the higher education horizon may prove the making of some institutions and the breaking of others
As MBA graduate career prospects recover, the student profile is shifting. Matthew Reisz reports
̽»¨ÊÓÆµ regularly writes about the effects of bureaucracy on the academy - quality assurance, research assessment, grant applications and the demands of quangos and other "stakeholders...
Growing middle class in China credited for surge in students from region. John Morgan writes
Malcolm Gillies enjoys this aphoristic guide to university life but fears time may have moved on
Research reveals positives and pitfalls for Sino-UK university joint ventures. John Morgan reports

Modern languages should be a passport to life, so why are so few students queuing up to learn them? In a special report on Britain's linguistic skills gap, Matthew Reisz discovers that, globally...
Author: Evan MawdsleyEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 498Price: £50.00 and £16.99ISBN 9780521845922 and 1608435Was the Second World War really a world war - and when and...
An academic has paved the way for the reassembly of an important Buddhist statue after finding its legs in a Cambodian forest. The largest intact piece of the eight-headed, 3m-high sandstone statue,...
Prime minister's delegation agrees joint research projects and greater cooperation. Paul Jump reports
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867-1896Edited by Jason Edwards, reader in art history, University of York, and Imogen Hart, postdoctoral research associate, Yale...
He had it all: royal blood, good looks, an immensely rich if unfaithful wife, who provided him with a mansion in Park Lane, and close friendships with film stars. He also had charm by the bucketful....
Entrenched ideas hinder drive to attract more foreign students and staff, writes Michael Fitzpatrick

Steve Smith has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours after steering Universities UK through one of the higher education sector’s most turbulent periods.