Mediterranean retreat
The University of East London is closing its campus in Cyprus after just six months due to poor recruitment. Meanwhile, the University of Central Lancashire is keeping a close eye on whether the...
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Publishing and copyright licences: academics opt to keep control
Academics prefer to publish their research under the most restrictive forms of copyright, a survey has suggested.More than half of 13,000 authors who have recently published in Taylor &...
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Odds and quads
The Oracle by Reg Butler is one of five original works in the University of Hertfordshire’s art collection.
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Campus round-up
Wearing wellResearch by a university’s neuroscientists has inspired catwalk fashion for a unique scheme. The Changing Minds project - involving neuroscientists at the University of Southampton and...
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Nation of Islam
Ervand Abrahamian considers how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia
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Dulce et decorum est
The architects of the Iraq misadventure should be made to read this book, avers James T. Crouse
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A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd by Catherine Burke
This is a generous, well-crafted review of the life of Bradford-born public sector architect Mary Medd (née Crowley, 1907-2005). As a means of gaining insight into how to design schools, Catherine...
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‘Hitler’s Pope’, minus the pontification
John Pollard commends a portrayal of the life of a controversial figure - his flaws and his gifts
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Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister
Anyone reading this book who thought that sustainability was the preserve of small, high-minded companies concerned with the impact of their production methods on people and the planet will be...
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Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Silence has become a fashionable topic in our ceaselessly noisy world. At the last count, a search of the World Wide Web turned up an astounding 293 million or so references about silence ranging...
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The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games by Jesper Juul
Why do we play games when we know they make us unhappy? Video games in particular, that is, but games and sport in general, too. Analysis of video games has been an integral part of the theorising of...
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Jagged little pills
Recent research in Germany reveals that one in five students “takes something” to improve academic performance. The substances can range from fairly innocuous caffeine tablets to Ritalin,...
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Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister
Isabelle Szmigin on how big companies sustain their profits first, and the environment second
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'Offa lets Russell Group off fair access hook'
Watchdog ‘is not putting enough pressure’ on elite universities to widen participation, says report
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Ban country clubs so foreign students mix
‘Social engineering’ might be needed to help integrate international students, Sheffield pro v-c says