From Where I Sit - Culture swap
During the holidays, our students can get extra credits by studying at our sister college in the US. I interview them before they go. They sidle, giggling, into my office and with little eye contact...
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Research intelligence - Engine of discovery seeks new driver
Elizabeth Gibney on the Wellcome Trust’s top job, one of the most powerful roles in UK research
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Selection mechanism
We must leave no stone unturned in making the Oxbridge admissions process as fair and comprehensive as possible, says Miles Hewstone
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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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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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Odds and quads
IE University in Segovia occupies the site of the first Dominican convent on Spanish soil, Santa Cruz la Real.
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Derivative formula: Dutch plan ban on pure speculation
Academy’s use of financial instruments worries politicians. Martin Mevius reports
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Appointments
University of LuxembourgLudwig NeysesA University of Manchester academic has been appointed vice-president for research at the University of Luxembourg. Ludwig Neyses, currently chair in medicine and...
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Saving US higher education looks a taxing proposition
Universities hope California’s referendum on state funding may set a precedent. Jon Marcus writes
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Spartan helotry
Austerity has brought tragedy to Greece and the UK. Martin McQuillan reflects on the narrative and ideology of ‘fiscal discipline’ and what it means for both nations and their academies
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Head in the clouds, feet on the ground
Ronald Barnett offers an imaginative approach to the idea of the university: ‘feasible utopias’ that open up possibilities for renewal beyond the dominant ideas of the market and the pessimistic...
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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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Appliance of social science
Joined-up thinking across theory and practice could revolutionise our public services, says Jonathan Shepherd
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3 January 2013
The big squeeze - Austerity plays out on the Greek stage – and closer to home, too