The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City, by William B. Helmreich
Flora Samuel on a sociologist’s observations of everyday life in the Big Apple
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Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art, by Harry W. Greene
Jules Pretty on a combined autobiography of a field biologist and celebration of nature
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The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler, by Ben Urwand
Philip Kemp on the cooperation and acquiescence demonstrated by LA film studios to the Nazis
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The Art of Listening in the Early Church, by Carol Harrison
Ursula King on how the new Christian message was communicated by listening to the spoken word through teaching and preaching
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Willetts challenged over Robbins comparison
David Willetts has been challenged over his assertion that university class sizes are the same as they were 50 years ago
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Animal research debate votes against full ban
Students taking part in a huge nationwide debate have overwhelmingly disagreed with the notion of a full ban on animal testing in research
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Inside Higher Ed: Not-So-Great Expectations
By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed
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LSE ‘seeks facts’ over expulsion at Peking
The London School of Economics is “attempting to establish the facts” over the expulsion of an academic from Peking University, one of its partners.
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Universities to come under OFT microscope
The Office of Fair Trading is to examine England’s universities, including how they compete for students and set fees under the £9,000 regime.
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Fossil fuel ties with universities highlighted by report
UK universities have the equivalent of £2,083 per student invested in the fossil fuel industry, a new report has claimed.
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Willetts urges fresh expansion
David Willetts has warned of the need to expand the number of higher education places between the end of this decade and 2035 to cope with a growing young population
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EU exit would leave UK universities ‘in thrall to US model’
If the UK were to leave the European Union, the nation’s universities would be left in even greater “ideological thrall” to the US.
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Lebanese rocket academic’s story told in new film
The extraordinary forgotten story of a university science club which put the first Arab rockets into space is the focus of a new documentary film.
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Vince Cable’s office targeted by protesters
Student activists have tried to occupy Vince Cable’s constituency office in protest at Liberal Democrat backing for the sale of the student loan book
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Maori heads return to New Zealand
The University of Birmingham is returning to New Zealand its collection of Toi moko, tattooed heads preserved by Maoris to venerate a loved one or mock a defeated enemy.