Social science

In the heyday of campus radicalism, protests took place at the drop of a hat and Marxism ruled. Today's young are quieter and as likely to vote Tory as for the Left. There's still commitment but, as Tariq Tahir finds, now it's to getting a good job

While wrestling, crime, sex and tulipmania spice up popular books on economics, the academic discipline often remains impenetrable. Matthew Reisz considers the costs and benefits of complexity

Spectator columnist says politics department delivers propaganda. Melanie Newman reports

Robert Gillett on Erika and Klaus Mann's bittersweet relationships with family and country

If we are what we eat, then the UK is a mutable feast of cultural diversity, says Jeremy MacClancy

The new principal of St Andrews has made history. Olga Wojtas meets a terrorism expert from Harvard

Fewer students from state sector stems from poor schooling, study finds. Rebecca Attwood reports

Western approaches to learning can be alien to students from other cultures, who learn to a different 'script'. Thushari Welikala explains

Academics who are sole entrants in their category admit to feeling the pressure. Zoe Corbyn reports

Athenian art lauding men's sexual relations with beardless youth still unsettles, says Simon Goldhill

Alex Danchev finds law and war are indivisible

National research pools are winning Scotland an international reputation, writes Olga Wojtas

Academics say that proposed rules will harm core activities in the field. Rebecca Attwood reports

Maureen Skinner started out making tea but now runs an 80-strong team and leads the professional body for HE managers

Scholars must challenge the copyright laws, which allow estates to stifle efforts to generate new ideas about an author's works, argues Alistair McCleery

Disseminating research via the web is appealing, but it lacks journals' peer-review quality filter, says Philip Altbach

Three academics at the University of Nottingham argue that the recent arrests of a postgraduate student and a staff member herald an erosion of civil liberties and a clear threat to legitimate research

Coventry trials virtual offices of webcams, laptops and shared filing cabinets, writes John Gill

Fiona Reid dissects an analysis that aims to move patent policy beyond faith and towards evidence