Inside Higher Ed: Not Getting What You Paid For
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Richard III is found: Leicester academics confirm remains are those of English king
Academics from the University of Leicester have confirmed a skeleton found beneath a car park in the city is that of the English king, Richard III.
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Edinburgh’s Coursera-based Moocs attract 300,000
More than 300,000 people have signed up to the University of Edinburgh’s free massive open online courses (Moocs) since they were first announced in July 2012, it has been revealed.
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Tory MP Tredinnink’s committee selection sparks concern
A Tory MP renowned for pro-homeopathy views has been has been provisionally appointed as a member of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
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Five committee chairs urge change on overseas students
The chairs of five parliamentary committees have written to the prime minister urging him to remove overseas university students from the net migrant target, highlighting “unprecedented” consensus...
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Still personal, still political
Miriam David’s reflections on her career as a scholar and feminist inspired her to interview a range of female academics about their paths to the getting of wisdom - and the pivotal role feminism has...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Bleakonomics by Rob Larson
Stewart Lansley on a sobering tale of plutonomy and the ‘failed science’ of economics
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Willy Maley reviews an acclaimed Kenyan writer’s memoirs
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Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town by Lucy Riall
Richard Bosworth on the Risorgimento’s local legacy
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Imagining the University by Ronald Barnett
Simon Blackburn on higher education via a postmodern lens
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Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe by Katy Price
Vike Martina Plock on literary echoes of relativity’s shockwaves
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Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life by André Dombrowski
Alex Danchev finds new Modernist shades in this portrait of painter
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Campus round-up
Hot stuffResearchers have been awarded £765,000 for a three-year study into the physical processes behind the super-hot ionised plasma that appears on the Sun. The Science and Technology Facilities...
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In the spirit: there's more to research than money
EU should place spiritual values above potential profit in funding considerations, Chris Parr hears