Behind the Academic Curtain: How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD, by Frank F. Furstenberg
Tara Brabazon on postgraduate career guidance that applies to an elite world that is shrinking
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Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel, by Bernd Stiegler
Robert Mayhew on the vision, dignity and achievement of two centuries of armchair travellers
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Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-45, by Matthew Feldman
Richard Bosworth on an exploration of Pound’s activism before and during the Second World War
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The End of Plagues: The Global Battle against Infectious Disease, by John Rhodes
Helen Bynum on the history of vaccination
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The Nostalgia Factory: Memory, Time and Ageing, by Douwe Draaisma
Alan Collins considers the ‘reminiscence effect’
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The Making of the Modern British Home: The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars, by Peter Scott
Grace Lees-Maffei on the sights and sounds of the suburbs
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Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics, by Michael Ignatieff
The death of an academic-cum-Liberal’s parliamentary career was really not so strange, argues Lynn McDonald
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European sun shines on research funding
The European Union officially adopted Horizon 2020 on 3 December 2013
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Experts demand quality control for capless ‘free-for-all’
Legislation a must after scrapping of student quotas
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Out of the blue, into the red?
The chancellor’s decision to abolish the numbers cap is laudable but, as always, the devil lurks in the detail
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Scientific voyage into mountainous seas
Data gathering can be a dangerous business, oceanographer Penny Holliday tells Paul Jump
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Whitehall farce by the student numbers
Aldwyn Cooper takes aim at the coalition’s haphazard policymaking
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Australian v-c counts costs of uncapped system
Admissions standards have fallen to balance budgets, Adelaide chief argues
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Vice-chancellors reject pay rise
Two university leaders forgo increases as tensions over staff wage offer continue
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FE to HE progression will be hit by skills rules, engineers warn
Engineering body fears impact of post-16 maths and English workload