July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin
A startling exercise in revisionism leads A. W. Purdue to ponder which nation was responsible for launching the great conflict
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Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec
Rachel L. Einwohner on those who stood against the Holocaust
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Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing, by Didier Fassin
Vicky Conway on the corrosive effect of unchecked power
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Christianity and the University Experience: Understanding Student Faith, by Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Sonya Sharma and Rob Warner
Religious belief is alive and well on campus, observes Gerald Pillay
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Spanish Golden Age Theatre Season, Theatre Royal, Bath
Jonathan Thacker hopes that three comedia nueva plays - combining comedy and tragedy - will herald a revival of a lesser-known art form
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Fees fault line may reopen at Lib Dem conference
Opposition grows over motion to ‘retain current system of finance’
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MPs question RCUK’s gold standard
Committee points to ‘gaps in qualitative and quantitative evidence’ for Finch report recommendations
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Africa’s mobile phone e-learning transformation
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality?
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THE Scholarly Web - 12 September 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
Victoria Bateman counts the costs when there’s not enough to go around
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Stoner: a classic tale of a 'small' academic life
John Williams’ novel about the careworn life of an obscure US academic deserves its belated success, Christopher Bigsby writes
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The problems facing university boards
Freedom of demand but not supply, bureaucracy and Stalinist pay deals make progress almost impossible, says Sir Stuart Etherington
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Privy Council warns BIS not to alter ‘sensitive’ word list
Response to consultation says change to company name restrictions could aid bogus institutions
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How to make meetings bearable
Meetings are an inescapable annoyance for most academics, but there are ways to make them more tolerable, John Kaag says
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Gender complaints: a third of women perceive unfair treatment
Almost one in three senior female academics feels their institution treats staff unfairly in relation to gender, a survey has found