Fred Halliday has been vindicated in his long battle with the LSE over taking Gaddafi money. But the underlying reason - corporate and government pressure on the university is not addressed by the Woolf Report into the scandal.
The London police defended the Minister of Higher Education by showing that even universities are to be subject to the criticism of truncheons. The Liberal Democrats of all parties should oppose this.
In a bold new initiative, philosopher-proprietor A.C. Grayling has launched a for-profit university amidst a storm of opposition. Could it be that the prospectus is misleading, and the venture undemocratic and wrong in principle?
A team of celebrity academics, led by philosopher AC Grayling, are launching a new British private university, charging 18k per year. Far from its stated aim of helping save the humanities, the NCH will accelerate the move in the UK towards an educational culture of elites serving the elite
Our universities are under attack, with the Coalition determined to throw them to the mercy of the market. Support is growing for a Manifesto for Higher Education that sets out demands on universities and the government, but will it reignite the student movement?
During a Commons debate on Human Trafficking, Denis MacShane MP accused professor Anne Phillips of filling the minds of her students at the LSE with 'poisonous drivel' concerning the difference between waged work and prostitution
