Can an open-air lab tempt you to Siberia?
Russia’s Tomsk State University is banking on the region’s natural assets and an English language push to attract foreign students and scholars
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Check your reflexes on UK’s first private medical school
Kevin Fong examines his responses to £35,000 a year degree
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Forty years of a Kraftwerk revolution
Uwe Schütte on the German band whose electronic beats and futuristic visions are still relevant today
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Peter Paul Catterall, George McKay, Claire O’Mahony, Lyla Quinn and Stephen Senn...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life, by Jie Li
Jonathan Mirsky on one family’s memories of life in a Shanghai alleyway, from Mao to the modern day
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William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England, by W. B. Patterson
Alec Ryrie welcomes a study of an Elizabethan scholar that dispels a posthumous Puritan label
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How to be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University, by Jeffrey J. Williams
Fred Inglis on a collection of articles that touches on, but should have focused on, the corruption of universities by corporate forces
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Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, by David Motadel
Robert Gellately on how Hitler’s forces tried to forge alliances with Muslims during the Second World War
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22 January 2015
Power building - Russia’s ambitious bid to modernise its higher education sector
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Q&A with Lord Myners
We speak to London School of Economics’ chair of its court of governors and of the council
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The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why it Doesn’t Feel Like Victory, by Martin Weller
Sandra Leaton Gray on a chilling true story of the monetisation of the contents of academics’ heads
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Teacher training allocations a ‘slap in the face’
Universities denied extra places in favour of schools and SCITTs
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Thomas Docherty case cost University of Warwick over £43K
University says there are ‘lessons to be learned’ from professor’s tribunal
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Darius in the Shadow of Alexander, by Pierre Briant, translated by Jane Marie Todd
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on the Persian king who has always been sidelined by Alexander the Great
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UCU Left defiant on pension deal
Letter urges university staff to reject new pensions offer and renew strike action, despite warnings that success is unlikely