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6 December 2012
Big opportunity, huge challenge - Will Moocs reshape the world?
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Research intelligence - Matchmaking creates good vibrations
KTPs bring together businesses and universities for their mutual benefit
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Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jon Turney salutes an exhaustive study of the rise and (relative) fall of a brilliant, bewildering mind
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Seven Psychopaths
Duncan Wu is amused by a frenzied bagatelle full of violence, political incorrectness and comic fury, signifying…itself, mostly
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THE podcast: Liam Burns
Podcast Powered By PodbeanLiam Burns, president of the National Union of Students, speaks to us on this week’s THE podcast about the Pound in Your Pocket report, which looks at student financial...
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UCL 'heart and soul' at risk in statute fight
A second stab at reforming path to dismissal draws UCU counter-attack. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Women demand seat at the tables
Manifesto calls for university rankings to take gender gap into account. David Matthews writes
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The lecturers who don't teach (but still count)
UCU study suggests flaws in student-to-staff ratios may mask true class sizes. Jack Grove reports
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The week in higher education
• University College London is known for its association with Jeremy Bentham, but alumni have been surprised to receive in the post a paper lantern bearing an image of his head - as well as an email...
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This could be huge...
Moocs are already big - in reach and in hype - and are predicted to explode. Zoë Corbyn checks in to learn if they are more than just a novelty and to find out what it’s like to teach a class of 38,...
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Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a heavyweight thinker. He affirms that reality rules, that the role of theoreticians is to provide the gods with endless amusement, and that prediction is by mugs, for mugs....
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Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning
In the post-9/11 world, few issues have received more attention than the question of what exactly it is that turns seemingly ordinary people into terrorists. Why would anybody strap on a suicide vest...
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The Fourth Dimension of a Poem, and Other Essays
A simple new approach to poems has come upon us; it may free us from the knotweeds of theory, obscure discourse or self-delighting ideologies that now guard poems. The method guides us to the poem’s...
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Roy Penny, 1931-2012
A researcher and engineer who made important contributions to making nuclear power safer has died.