Imperial echoes
'Internationalisation' is the trend du jour for universities, but they would do well to consider its earlier manifestation during the British Empire's long 19th century. As Tamson Pietsch explains,...
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Fixing Drugs: The Politics of Drug Prohibition
David Nutt applauds a well-balanced evaluation of narcotics law, with all its inconsistencies and flaws
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Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation
A grand biological theory for what makes us so special does not convince Steven Rose
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The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
This is a very unexpected book. Brad Gregory's first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, was much admired: a detailed, scholarly work that stayed fairly firmly in...
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The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
After Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion comes the reply. Wham bam! Rupert Sheldrake takes on the "truth-finding religion" of science in general and "ten dogmas" of the 21st-century worldview in...
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Check this out: aisle be listening
Supermarkets' consumer-led strategies proposed as a 'model for institutions'. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
Government departments'Keep universities under BIS'The author of a major review into the future of collaborations between universities and business has suggested that higher education should stay in...
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De Montfort ga ga as Queen selects it for Jubilee party
Staff and students 'pinching themselves' over monarch's choice of launch pad. Paul Jump writes
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Open equation, but perhaps it is 'unintelligible'
The future of open access to academic work was high on the agenda as researchers and leading scientific publishers came face to face at a debate in Oxford.The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and...
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Open-ended answers for questions of demand in cash-strapped Europe
Open courseware is a shop window and a pressure valve, Delft leader argues. Jack Grove reports
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Bumpy ride in California's international student drive
UCLA hopes campus culture shock will ease as overseas cash boosts income. Phil Baty reports
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Irish court gives pay-off parity to contract lecturer
A union representing Irish academics has welcomed a landmark legal decision that removes an incentive for universities to employ staff on fixed-term contracts in a bid to avoid larger redundancy pay-...
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News in brief
United StatesCleared, but Muslim row not overA US academic who posted comments critical of Muslims on a personal Facebook page has been cleared of discrimination by his university. Maurice Eisenstein...
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Kazakhstan goes West, but only so far
David Matthews reports on ambitious plans to modernise the country's post-Soviet academy
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILConnected Communities programme• Award winner: Andrew Miles• Institution: University of Manchester• Value: £1,204,673Understanding everyday participation -...