Learning on the job: social work watchdog demands better placements
The social work watchdog is urging universities to drive up the quality of work placements for students after two-thirds of providers were asked to make improvements.
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Inside Higher Ed: How not to deal with a student mother
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Have-less versus have-lots: Erasmus Scheme’s ‘unfairness gap’ criticised
The Erasmus Scheme was set up in 1987 with the admirable aim of increasing academic mobility within Europe.Via the funding of exchange programmes for students and staff, the scheme involves 90 per...
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Ledger in the black: KPMG unveils paid alternative to full-time study
Students will receive a generous salary and have their tuition fees and accommodation costs met while studying at Durham University under a recruitment programme announced by the accountancy giant...
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Opinion: The giant school’s emancipatory lessons
Mike Cole and Sara C. Motta defend the record of post-Chávez Venezuela, a country that offers a vision of genuine participatory democracy in stark contrast to the West’s cynical politics
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Hesa points to degrees of growing success
The proportion of students gaining good degrees is continuing to climb, according to official figures published today.
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The fruits of Californication
The Golden State's mix of public planning, spin-off innovation and private excellence has made it one of the global academy's powerhouses. But funding cuts threaten the University of California's pre...
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Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life
Tony Mann is inspired by a book that debunks the stereotypical view of men and women of numbers
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Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life In England 1918-1963
Petra Boynton surveys a candid and moving account of the sexual mores of an older generation
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The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V
The economist Adam Smith described the European discovery of the Americas as the "greatest and most important event recorded in the history of mankind". Despite what we know about the brutality and...
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Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic, its life and demise, has garnered its fair share of academic attention over the past 20 years. Moreover, popular films such as Good Bye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others...
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The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth
Tom F. Wright admires a spirited attempt to restore some justice to the woman Dickens wrote off
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Death in War and Peace: A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970
It is particularly heartening to read scholastic work that is both accessible to a non-academic audience and intellectually stimulating for those working in the academic arena. In Death in War and...
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The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
The political theorist, Judith Shklar, once commented that in order to understand political conduct, it is not enough merely to study instrumentalist-rationalist behaviour and related outcomes, as...
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A nation's saving grace
Religious diversity in the US is more a force for tolerance than for discord, argues scholar Robert Putnam. Jon Marcus reports