Fresh leak of scientists' emails ahead of climate change summit
The University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has found itself back in the spotlight with the leak of over 5,000 emails seemingly to and from its academic staff.
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NERC appoints new head after long search
A new chief executive has been appointed to the Natural Environment Research Council almost five months after its previous head stepped down.
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Poor Londoners in richer boroughs ‘most disadvantaged’
A “poverty penalty” is restricting access to higher education for poor Londoners, particularly those living in richer boroughs, a new report says.
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Inside Higher Ed: Pepper spray outrage
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Southampton begins recruitment for new Malaysia campus
The University of Southampton’s first overseas campus has begun enrolling students after the project received academic accreditation from the Malaysian authorities.
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Fresh call for White Paper reforms to be shelved
Academics at Birkbeck, University of London have called for the government to suspend its higher education reforms.
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Lancaster to open new chemistry department
A new Department of Chemistry is to be established at Lancaster University, more than a decade after its old department was closed.
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Just good friends: Dundee and Abertay say merger is off the cards
The universities of Dundee and Abertay Dundee have issued a joint statement with the Scottish Funding Council asserting that they will not merge.
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Command performance
Professors should provide intellectual leadership, but some incumbents have other priorities or misunderstand their role. Bruce Macfarlane asserts that universities must find a way to get the best...
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Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Alessandra Tosi on a must-read for the massed ranks who fret about the future of the humanities
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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
It is ideology, not ignorance, that connects diverse groups on the political Right, finds Joanna Bourke
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The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England
When the first detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was formed in 1842, the new "Peelers" had existed for 13 years and were just shaking off a reputation as spies and quasi-military bullies....
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Venice Disputed: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600
By focusing on one of Venice's 16th-century patricians, Marc'Antonio Barbaro, his political career and patronage, this book analyses the debates that fuelled international diplomacy and Venice's...
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A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe
Barbara Graziosi on a grand historical narrative that fails to recognise the widespread roots of Europe
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Moscow, The Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941
Exactly halfway through Moscow, The Fourth Rome, we read that "1935 might be described as the high point of Soviet internationalism". This assertion flies in the face of conventional historiography,...