Research council ‘impact reports’ reveal rise in doctoral student progression
The number of research council-funded doctoral students remaining in the academy beyond graduation is increasing, new figures reveal.
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UUK moves to reassure Indian students following shooting
The president of Universities UK has written a letter to newspapers in India expressing his “deep sadness” at the murder of student Anuj Bidve and to reassure others planning to study in Britain that...
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Captured by the castle
Downton Abbey's true star, argues A.W. Purdue, is the house itself: the ultimate British status symbol
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Boom and bust
The University of Wales was brought down by validation, its money-making machine. David Matthews asks how that happened, how others might be stopped from putting cash before quality and whether the...
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Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
Katharine Reeve on an intriguing exploration of how our physical and virtual identities are merging
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
Harold Shukman on a fascinating study of Britain's daring wartime plans for counter-revolution
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Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Over the course of Edith Wharton's long writing career, her women characters do grow up, in notable contrast to her male characters; and, insist Janet Beer and Avril Horner in their book Edith...
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume 1 - Microspherology
Few academics in the UK will have read the writings of Peter Sloterdijk, but in Germany he is a superstar. His 1983 book Critique of Cynical Reason remains the best-selling philosophical work written...
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Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others
The law and order brigade actually makes the US a more violent place, Joanna Bourke learns
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The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature
When I picked up this book, I was expecting two things: a study of the creative retelling of a key classical myth (or its reception) in children's literature; and a focus on texts of fantasy fiction...
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Ten Popes Who Shook the World
Like it or loathe it, you can't really ignore the papacy. It's the world's oldest dynasty, and it commands the loyalty of nearly a fifth of the world's population and the attention of a great many...
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Peer calls for German-style partnerships with industry
Links between universities and manufacturing could help make Britain 'great' again. John Morgan writes
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It was the best of space-time, it was the worst of space-time...
Scientists and novelists have joined forces to pen dramatic tales of discovery. Matthew Reisz writes
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Big-screen vision breaks academic boundaries
A researcher from Bournemouth University has published what he describes as a pioneering example of "scholarship in the guise of a film script".
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News in brief
United StatesPreferential, not equal treatmentA US university was justified in challenging one of its students over the compatibility of her views on homosexuality with her training as a counsellor,...