Moocs: giving or gobbling?
Surprise, surprise: the turkeys vote against Christmas (“Higher education ‘hype cycle’ that can be both vicious and virtuous”, Opinion, 9 January; “Hits and myths: Moocs may be wonderful idea, but...
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Leaders need a solid inside knowledge
Re “Leading question: scholar or executive?”, News, 16 January. There is a myth that top executives from one field do well in another. For example, it was thought that stuffy engineers were ill-...
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The week in higher education - 23 January 2014
After the University of Leicester’s Richard III jamboree last year, the University of Winchester has apparently gone one better by finding Alfred the Great. Well, a small fragment of his pelvis at...
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NCH plans could mean new owner
New College of the Humanities plots course for growth and more investment
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Willetts’ special adviser post for Ryan Shorthouse in doubt
Delayed approval from No 10 raises questions about future of role
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Leverhulme Trust to fund 150 PhD scholarships
£10 million scheme set up to counteract disincentivisation of undergraduate debt for potential researchers
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Inspiring books show humanities’ value, say scholars
Eminent academics restate worth of ‘knowledge for its own sake’
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Campus close-up: Cranfield University
Head of postgraduate powerhouse Sir Peter Gregson wants to ensure doors are open to all
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Jonathan Eaton, Roger Morgan, Craig Newbery-Jones, R. C. Richardson and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Antinomies of Realism, by Fredric Jameson
The latest work from a leading literary critic expounds a wealth of ideas, says Robert Eaglestone
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Going Beyond Google Again: Strategies for Using and Teaching the Invisible Web, by Jane Devine and Francine Egger-Sider
Search differently, says Sarah Ison
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Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More, by Thomas Betteridge
Peter Gwyn finds an attempt to put More’s writings into historical context less than clear
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What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon, by Ankhi Mukherjee
Authors emulating Western literature have created their own voice, says Robert Appelbaum
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Rousseau’s Hand: The Crafting of a Writer, by Angelica Goodden
The simple life may be a carefully contrived one, says Biancamaria Fontana