Global revolution
A radical change is taking place in universities around the world as fast-expanding private provision offers access to millions of new students. Is this a threat to the traditional sector and to...
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Welcome to our consumers
Student satisfaction will be the arena where private and public universities will have to compete, reports Hannah Fearn
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The American lesson: How to be top
Ivy League institutions rose to greatness only after being cut off from state aid and meddling, says Terence Kealey
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Hopes are high that the President is 'singing their song'
The private education sector in the US is in buoyant mood, seeing good prospects both at home and abroad, reports Jon Marcus
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Book of the week: No Enchanted Palace
Simon Rushton on a unorthodox account of how the UN was born
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Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture
Words and meanings change over time, but this narrative leaves Lynne Segal craving more analysis
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The Historiographic Perversion
While the mass killings of the Armenians in 1915, which claimed more than 1 million lives, have been recognised as a genocide by many historians and more than 20 governments around the world, there...
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The Canon: Les Regles de l'Art: Genese et Structure du Champ Litteraire. By Pierre Bourdieu
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is perhaps best known for La Distinction (1979), but it is his 1992 work Les Regles de l'Art that in my view best sums up the themes he explored...
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The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World
To tackle the Earth's problems, we must look at the culture behind them, finds Laurence Coupe
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Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
Men serving on the front line are like puppets on a string, postulated German playwright Wolfgang Borchert on his return from the Eastern Front: all individual thought and impulses reduced to an...
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War, or as we prefer to call it in the South, the War Between the States (or, alternatively, the War of Northern Aggression or the War for Southern Independence), has captivated me...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Theory of Island Biogeography RevisitedEdited by Jonathan B. Losos, professor in organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University, and Robert E....
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Divided academy won't boost quality 1
How disappointing it was to read Peter Williams' comments in your magazine ("Engage with quality assurance or face state takeover, scholars told", 19 November).Williams, the former chief executive of...
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Divided academy won't boost quality 2
The Government's approach to quality is to remove support from courses regarded as unsatisfactory. Such a policy seems destructive. A more positive approach would be to use metrics of quality to...
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Priorities aren't working
Academics are concerned about the objectivity of a £4.4 million Economic and Social Research Council call, with additional support from the Medical Research Council, for bids to study the happiness...