The evidence option: hitting targets with practised precision
New Office for Fair Access strategies will help universities learn what works best in their efforts to reach ambitious goals, says Les Ebdon
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Meetings of minds or shotgun weddings?
Whether spurred by lofty research ambition or the prosaic hope that one can live more cheaply than two, universities’ urge to merge can bring cultural as well as organisational challenges, as recent...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in Fin de Siecle Literature
Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Like me and many other neuroscientists who study memory and who find ourselves explaining what we do to non-neuroscientists, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga must often have encountered people who claim they...
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Making Policy in British Higher Education 1945-2011
The main question raised by Michael Shattock’s new book is whether any underlying pattern can be discerned in post-war UK higher education policy. A number of writers have pointed to an increase in...
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Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt
Democracy suffers when the Islamists, the military and the secret police collude, writes Mariz Tadros
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Consuming Higher Education: Why Learning Can't Be Bought
Among the many processes that are said to define contemporary English universities are those of commercialisation, bureaucratisation, infantilisation and marketisation. To this list Joanna Williams...
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Odds and quads
Until the age of slides and computer displays, printed wallcharts and three-dimensional models were essential teaching tools within universities. Many combined scientific accuracy with great beauty...
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Appointments
King's College LondonTony CharmanKing's College London has appointed a child autism expert to its Institute of Psychiatry. Tony Charman, who has previously held posts at University College London's...
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Globalisation and its discontents
Scholarship has long been international but the current vision of a ‘worldwide’ academy of rootless student-consumers and national economic competition is as contradictory as it is immoral, argues...
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High and low profile
Living with bipolar disorder is nothing like the movies, says Sally Feldman
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Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley
Alec Ryrie salutes a committed and critical look at a key event in the history of Catholicism
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Let's wait for the weightings
Data on the number of eligible staff submitted to the REF will produce better rankings - but funding councils must play ball
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Forget illness - build resilience!
“It’s time to get tough with illness.”Those were the fighting words used by Louise Bimpson, Corporate Director of our ever-expanding Human Resources Department, as she introduced the brand new “Let’s...