Willetts: less red tape + fewer tax burdens = more autonomy
Measures to cut red tape and reduce tax burdens on universities will strengthen their autonomy, David Willetts has said.
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Apple takes on textbook market
After a feverish build up in which commentators forecast the “digital destruction” of the multi-billion dollar textbook industry, Apple has unveiled a “new textbook experience” and free online...
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Who let them in?
Advisers, administrators, trusted vice-chancellorial aides and henchmen: Mark Leach considers the rise of the 'policy wonks' and the mixed reception afforded a new force in the higher education...
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The art of the matter
As high-profile art schools are absorbed by larger institutions, Peter Hill asks if their uniquely fertile environments suffer for being overseen by those whose priorities inevitably lie elsewhere
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Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously about the Planet
Christopher Belshaw considers some right-leaning directions on how to save the environment
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The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy
Vanessa Williamson extols a clarion call for US citizens to press for more accountable governance
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Anti-Nietzsche
Malcolm Bull's latest work is not a book about Nietzsche but one with Nietzsche; if it had had a subtitle, "Nietzschean Variations" might have been a good choice. For this is exactly what the book...
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Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
To most people outside Germany, that country's long-lasting division after 1945 has been seen as a series of dramatic crises, essentially concerned with the divided and encircled city of Berlin....
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Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
Japanese notions of mental health differ from ours but everyone suffers in recession, finds David Healy
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British Comics: A Cultural History
Most of us with fond memories of what we read as children or young adolescents will feel some trepidation as the comic becomes the object of academic study, and be aghast at the prospect of Korky the...
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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World
Philippe van Parijs' book treats a subject that is largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Native speakers of English tend to accept the phenomenon of English as a global lingua franca (ELF...
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Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
In turning away as cattle are killed for our tables, we condemn animals to suffer, says Temple Grandin
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News in brief
United StatesDefence attacked, academy OKUniversities will not be severely hit by federal spending cuts on research and development in the US, an analysis suggests. According to the study by the...
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Fuel for-profits to 'jump-start' tottering economy
Investing more money in for-profit universities could "jump-start" the global economy, it has been suggested, and is the best way to create jobs and sustain economic growth in developing markets such...
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Lower fees or lose students, Welsh told
Core-and-margin model could cut places at most higher-priced universities. David Matthews writes