Edinburgh joins international partnership offering courses free online
The University of Edinburgh has joined major US universities including the California Institute of Technology in offering its online courses for free.
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Inside Higher Ed: Defending gay studies
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Government and funders move to make Finch a reality
The UK research councils have announced that they will provide block grants to help organisations cover the cost of open-access article fees after the government confirmed that it wants to see all...
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OECD predicts Sino-Indian dominance of young graduate numbers
By 2020, more than four in 10 young graduates in countries that are members of either the G20 or the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development will be Indian or Chinese, according to a...
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University of East London staff step up protests
Lecturers are set to protest at the University of East London next week to mark a decision by union members to strike this autumn.
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Cable fires latest salvo on student visas
The business secretary has said he “accepts” that changes to the student visa system have damaged perceptions of the UK overseas and called for a “liberal attitude to immigration”.
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UCU branch chair voted for Cardiff Met merger
The governor who represents academic staff at Cardiff Metropolitan University voted for the institution to merge in a crucial ballot on independence, it has emerged.
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The Adventure of French Philosophy
This examination of past and future thought leaves Shahidha Bari captivated, and occasionally baffled
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Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib
Joanna Bourke reflects on the role of women in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by the US military
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Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Daniel Horowitz is a leading cartographer of cultural studies, as much at home with the quaggy contents of the bog as with the high, dry sierra of theory. He writes big books on one big theme: the...
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When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy
This is a revolutionary book - certainly within the context of mainstream analytic philosophy. But its appeal should be wider than the admittedly narrow circle of professional philosophers. Indeed,...
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Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation
Animal migrations and the navigation skills they require have long been a source of fascination, and they continue to be an active research field in biology. Despite progress over the past century,...
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Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema
Not a conventional history of film and no obvious theme - it's a bit of a mixed bag, says Philip Kemp
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The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality
The term "groundbreaking research" is often bestowed too lightly, but it is richly deserved in the case of this book. Mark McCormack offers a pioneering and remarkably inspiring account of the...
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Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity between the Wars
This book's title reflects an original and bold move, namely to focus on the location of Katrina Gulliver's subjects (modern women in China and Japan) rather than their national, cultural and/or...