Gas fills tanks but some are fracked off
Jon Marcus on the fiscal and ecological impact of extracting petroleum riches on US campuses
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The week in higher education
• A university's Christian Union caused uproar by banning female speakers at some meetings unless they were accompanied by their husbands, The Daily Telegraph reported on 4 December. The decision by...
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Scramble for top students linked to fall in numbers
Universities and applicants put eggs in one basket, Ucas suggests. Jack Grove reports
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North star to set UCL's direction
Leeds v-c will replace Malcolm Grant and plans to extend 'global footprint'. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Fresh blood an option after year of heavy losses
Remaining 1994 Group members meet for first time after mass departures. John Morgan reports
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The sector shalt be free, fair and never satisfied
Academic freedom has been listed as the first of "10 commandments of higher education" by a leading scholar.
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'Unreasonable' rules make Regent's reluctant to compete for state loans
Head criticises plan to cap undergraduate numbers for private access to SLC funds. John Morgan writes
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
The story behind the writing of a literary tour de force is illuminating, finds Tessa Hadley
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Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
BDSM (the compound acronym denoting the practices of bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism) seems to be everywhere these days. The unprecedented and unlikely...
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Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
This is a wonderful book that has all the strengths and weaknesses of the US scholarship on which it is based. In such a cultural space, religion is perceived as an asset, a positive resource,...
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Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis
No excuses, says Yvonne Sherratt: the Fuhrer’s enormities cannot be blamed on insanity
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The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin have produced an ambitious account of the nature of global capitalism, looking at its historical origins in order to argue that the US state has been the main driver of the...
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Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
Social science research has much in common with detective investigations: a search for unexpected connections and the crucial finding that will explain all. Once found, the solution seems obvious and...
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13 December 2012
Amazonian ambitions - Brazil parades its research wealth on the international stage
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All we want for Christmas
Malcolm Gillies awaits a sleigh and nine tiny (UKBA-compliant) reindeer