Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Jonathan Fenby values a life of the man who began the People's Republic's economic metamorphosis
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Mary I: England's Catholic Queen
Balanced views of Mary I are rare. She is more often than not cast as the "Bloody Mary" of Protestant legend: reactionary, obsessive, persecuting - and, while we're on the subject, short and ugly as...
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Survivors: The Animals and Plants that Time Has Left Behind
Richard Fortey's new book, a delight like all its predecessors, considers what are commonly termed "living fossils", in other words, plants and animals that have shown very little change, often for...
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The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized
Rupert Gethin admires a philosopher's search to assimilate a Buddhist understanding of the world
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Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers
Our fathers quickly become synonymous with secrets. When we are very small, they go off to a mysterious place called "work" and often return when we are asleep. My father could not be spoken to until...
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Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
Part of Jan-Werner Müller's interest in ideas concerns the question of where they come from. For instance, in referring to Francis Fukuyama's concept of the "end of history", he notes that "not for...
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Tap support to push for reform
Academy leaders should exploit the public interest in higher education. Simon Baker previews a debate
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News in brief
University of LondonV-c leaves to pursue other goalsThe vice-chancellor of the University of London has announced he is stepping down just one year into the job. Geoffrey Crossick, who took up the...
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Business schools object to scale of cross-subsidisation
Underinvestment blamed on funds siphoned off for loss-making courses, writes David Matthews
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(Re)productive reasoning on personal output
The University and College Union has urged the UK funding councils to allow female academics to submit one fewer output to the research excellence framework for each pregnancy they have had during...
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International issues 'ignored' in White Paper
The sector's international unit has criticised the government for failing to include internationalisation in the recent higher education White Paper, while underlining the need for "positive...
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Battle lines drawn as UCU candidates show colours
Sally Hunt welcomes challenge from increasingly influential Left wing of union. John Morgan reports
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Archaeology degrees stuck in the (far distant) past
Curricula ignoring modern professional needs and UK's industrial heritage. Matthew Reisz reports
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V-c peer wants strength in depth, not a thin veneer of excellence
As her Greenwich time ends, Baroness Blackstone tells Matthew Reisz why coalition reforms will fail
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Grant winners
Nuffield Foundation• Award winner: John Micklewright• Institution: Institute of Education• Value: £149,660Higher education funding and access: exploring common beliefs• Award winner: Peter Davies•...