Students need a tough consumer advocate
Martin McQuillan argues that the market for undergraduate higher education is broken and that Which? should step away from the role we have played as an information provider and advocate for students...
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Promoting gender balance
In just over two weeks’ time, many organisations, charities and individuals will be taking part in International Women’s Day, which this year takes as its theme “inspiring change”, encouraging “...
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Hard line on boycott could cost staff thousands
Experts foresee tough reaction from universities to UCU’s ‘ultimate sanction’
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber
When the lending system isn’t working, interests rate a check, advises Howard Davies
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Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf, by miriam cooke
Discussion of underground and emergent queer cultures are interesting, but Caroline Osella wishes for more insight from a respected scholar
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The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age, by Alison Phipps
Mary Evans agrees that feminism today focuses on women’s agency and identity at the expense of examining framing structures
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The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and her History in China, by Ronald C. Egan
Eva Shan Chou lauds an original, erudite portrait of a writer whose courage matched her creativity
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Literature in the First Media Age: Britain between the Wars, by David Trotter
Gary Day on an exploration of new technologies’ effects on artists’ representation of the world
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Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642, by Tim Harris
Ronald Hutton praises a tour de force on the causes of the English Civil War
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Ivy League head warns of harms of institutional bloat
Accretion of projects harms the ability of US universities to restrain costs and hit goals, says Dartmouth College president
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UK university partners end ties to LSBF
Private college loses all its previous degree-validating partners
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Banks could offer student finance option, v-c suggests
Rama Thirunamachandran moots idea of a loan system ‘underpinned by the private sector’
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The week in higher education
Prince William has had a busy time recently: high-fiving Tinie Tempah at the Baftas last week, shifting sandbags in a flood-hit Berkshire village and reportedly enjoying a hunting holiday in Spain...
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The week in higher education - 20 February 2014
It has bar stools and beer pumps, but the new “pub” at London South Bank University is not what it seems. In fact it is “an elaborate set, built at a cost of £20,000 by the psychology department; a...
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Hit the road, philosophy
Philosophers need to follow Socrates’ example and get back among the people, say John Kaag and David O’Hara