News in brief
AustraliaMedia students try to keep it realAn Australian university launched an investigation after it emerged that students had been assigned to plant fake stories in a rival institution’s student...
Search
-
-
American Umpire by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman’s wholly engaging analysis of US history characterises the American republic’s role as that of an umpire in an evolving world order. This role involves not only a...
-
Expect the unexpected
Kerstin Hoge probes a view of the mind that takes aim at Chomsky and evolutionary psychology
-
Making Scientists: Six Principles for Effective College Teaching by Gregory Light and Marina Micari
As the authors recount in this useful book, the Gateway Science Workshops (GSWs) run by their institution, Northwestern University in the US, target first-year undergraduates with the aim of...
-
Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal by Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi sets out to do two things in this book. First, he analyses the media circus that ensued after the 2012 airing of a BBC Newsnight report on allegations of sexual abuses committed by the...
-
Revengers’ tragedy
Judith Rowbotham weighs up thought-provoking arguments for a retributive system of justice
-
GI foe
Brutality is at the root of military life, even among America’s Greatest Generation, finds Fiona Reid
-
Historical perspective
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum, argues Brian Sewell
-
German retreat from fees territory
German states are scrapping tuition fees after less than 10 years. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
-
South Australia’s mass effects
South Australia strategy to be decided via mass brainstorming session. Paul Jump writes
-
Sally Feldman - Student satire is dead
Where have all the student satirists gone? wonders Sally Feldman
-
Adrian Furnham on peer review’s swings and roundabouts
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
-
István Aranyosi calls for university hiring policies that are purely business, not personal
Decisions based on gossip, caprice and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic, István Aranyosi argues
-
Image rights and wrongs: museums’ tardy application of copyright is a headache for scholars, argues Jane Masséglia
Obtaining image permissions for museum holdings can be costly, slow and frustrating, says Jane Masséglia
-
Obituary - Geza Vermes
A leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish background to the New Testament has died.Geza Vermes was born in Makó, Hungary, on 22 June 1924, into a Jewish family that had converted to...