The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency, by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for the White House. Elizabeth Cobbs enjoys an entertaining look at her and her predecessors
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What are you reading? – 10 March 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Slap Shot Science: A Curious Fan’s Guide to Hockey, by Alain Haché
A captivating study of Canadians’ national game skates over one element, says Andrew Robinson
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Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines, by Katja Guenther
Janet Sayers on an engaging work taking in Freud, Meynert and Penfield
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New and noteworthy – 10 March 2016
Epistolary adventures from Lincoln to Louisa May Alcott, universities v courts, and hard times and hope in Stoke-on-Trent: must-read scholarly titles
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Europe’s 200 best universities: who is at the top in 2016?
Ellie Bothwell examines strengths and weaknesses in different higher education systems across the Continent
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Grant winners – 10 March 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Most students do not see university as value for money
Although many students praise aspects of their university experience, the majority are still unhappy about what they get in return for fees
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The week in higher education – 10 March 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Laurie Taylor – 10 March 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Young blood: the invigorating force of new universities
Fleet-footed and innovative, fledgling institutions are well placed to nurture attributes that will be key in future rankings, says Peter Coaldrake
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The Open University needs to make it personal
For those of us who worked and believed in the Open University, the news of its financial difficulties in Times Higher Education last week made for wretched reading (“Open University posts £7m loss...
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Independent minds
Anthony Costello’s piece on the apparent “grip” of independent schools on Oxbridge is short on analysis and replete with prejudice, laid bare by recourse to such emotive phrases as “educational...