‘Natural labs’ a magnet for Ecuador’s city of knowledge
Recruitment is under way for Yachay University, a new campus that the country hopes will usher in a research and innovation culture
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A welcome clash of academic cultures
Alan Ruby reflects on an unscripted display of the differences between national research communities
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Climates of fear, public and private
Courage, or lack of it, can spur people to achieve, but everyone must decide for themselves how far out to stick their neck
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Top eight insider tips on industry-research collaborations
The art of making firm friends starts with making it easy for companies to say ‘yes’ to your approaches, say insiders. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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THE books podcast: Hester Vaizey interview
Download the podcastHester Vaizey, lecturer in modern German history and fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, speaks to Times Higher Education’s books editor, Karen Shook, about Born in the GDR:...
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Inside Out Festival 2014
The thinking person’s festival of culture in the capital offers Londoners a variety of delights and insights into the city around them
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Sir David Bell, Matthew Feldman, Dennis Hayes, Uwe Schütte and Peter J. Smith…
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Writing History in the Global Era, by Lynn Hunt
Is globalisation the next paradigm for a ‘discipline in crisis’? Richard Bosworth reviews the evidence
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The Truth About Art: Reclaiming Quality, by Patrick Doorly
Tracey Warr on a study discussing the role of value judgements
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Moral Conscience Through the Ages: Fifth Century BCE to the Present, by Richard Sorabji
Tom Palaima considers a compact history of the ideas about our inner voice
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Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World, by Nathan Eagle and Kate Greene
Are our ever more monitored lives becoming safer as a result? John Gilbey sifts the evidence
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Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present, by Michael H. Kater
Roger Morgan on the German city that enjoyed a golden age of culture that it never managed to reclaim
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker
Rachel Bowlby on a modern style guide that aims to teach good writing in a non-prescriptivist way
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Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics, by Beatriz Preciado
Richard Williams on Hugh Hefner’s attention to the enhancement of pleasure through erotic design
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The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China 1901–1956, by Jan Kiely
Jonathan Mirsky on the attempts to impose thought reform on prisoners in pre-Communist China