Campus round-up
University of East AngliaTempest testamentSmall, intense polar storms could make a big difference to climate predictions, according to a study. Researchers from the University of East Anglia and the...
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Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives
Alan Ryan on political reaction at two extremes of the American higher education system
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The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement
The growing interest in slums and squatter settlements owes much to the economist Hernando De Soto’s The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (2000), in...
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Off Piste - Unfamiliar territory
To many in the West, Central Asia is a bewildering array of indistinguishable nations. But if you take the time to get to know them, argues David Mould, the ‘stans’ are fascinating individuals
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Political absurdities
The US Constitution is flawed but many Americans don’t see it, says Alan Ryan
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THE podcast: 3 January 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanEditor John Gill and reporters Elizabeth Gibney and Matthew Reisz join Chris Parr for this week’s THE podcast to discuss some of the highlights from the latest issue of...
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3 January 2013
The big squeeze - Austerity plays out on the Greek stage – and closer to home, too
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Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project Archive
The archives of an apartheid-era arts centre shed light on creative as well as political forces, writes Matthew Reisz from Cape Town
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Thomas Nagel is best known for his influential 1974 paper “What is it like to be a bat?”, in which he argued that phenomenological facts about consciousness are not reducible to physical facts. In...
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
The ‘most authoritative polymath of our age’ offers a reverse recipe very much to Chris Knight’s taste
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Professors feel stitched up over stressful career list
University professors have the least stressful career in the US - narrowly beating tailors and seamstresses into second place, a job listing website has found
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Higher podcasts aim to take university debate to new level
An interview with former foreign secretary David Miliband is among the first podcasts now available on Times Higher Education's own podcast channel.
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Stress, pay, UKBA: our most read stories of 2012 revealed
Academics’ pay and stress levels featured prominently in the ten most popular Times Higher Education news stories of 2012.
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Ministers put the cap on pharmacy student numbers
The number of students embarking on pharmacy programmes in England will be restricted to match the number of NHS-funded training placements.
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'God particle' physicist and VCs recognised in honours list
One of the men who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle has been given the highest possible accolade in the New Year Honours list, released today.