Anyone trying to create a scholarly centre for gender and violence studies in Iraq is unlikely to have an easy time of it. It is an environment, acknowledged Nazand Begikhani, senior research Fellow...
Government plans to overhaul the immigration system and drastically reduce the number of visas issued amount to a “hostile act against Britain’s universities” and contain elements that have an “ugly...
The number of pupils plagiarising personal statements in their university application forms increased by one-third last year, it has been revealed.
It is an eye-wateringly powerful critique. The influential journalist Malcolm Gladwell, writing in the current edition of The New Yorker, shines a harsh light on the US’ national college rankings.The...
Chris McManus is impressed by a multidisciplined tour de force that simply oozes scholarship
Duncan Wu is gripped by a tale of a remarkable family's careful crafting of its public standing
This book is intended for a popular audience. It is low on technical detail, rhetorically selective in its presentation of research findings and light-hearted in tone: but none of this should deter...
The past few decades have seen the rise of "whiteness" studies, which explore the cultural construction of white power. The studies demonstrate how anti-African-American hostility was constituted as...
The People's Republic is buying into Western consumerism. Kerry Brown counts the costs
This volume dangles the lure of much enjoyable moral indignation. Readers are promised "example after example of harassment" and "vile and hateful speech", after which they will "never again see the...
It is perhaps unsurprising that a major literary classic written in the late 16th century should prove if not inaccessible, at least difficult to approach for the modern reader. The paradox, in the...
Academics close ranks to defend beleaguered foreign language study. Matthew Reisz reports
Conference hears that scheme's imminent demise could arrest momentum. Hannah Fearn reports
Gender studies is often perceived as a discipline in decline, but rumours of its impending demise have been greatly exaggerated, according to Clare Hemmings, director of the Gender Institute at the...
United StatesQuantity of mercyOne hundred academics at the University of California have signed a letter of protest over the treatment of Muslim students who disrupted a speech by Michael Oren, the...