Scotland urged to consider student fees if cap is raised south of the border
Universities’ competitive position is at stake, warns Beveridge review. Hannah Fearn reports
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Clarification
On 29 July we reported that the University of Cambridge had “topped a shortlist” to receive funding from the UK Space Agency for interplanetary exploration.In fact, the space agency has awarded £3.65...
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Profits of doom
Climate change is serious business - in more ways than one. Martin Cohen describes how capitalist 'bootleggers' have co-opted the environmental 'Baptists' to fulfil their raison d'etre - making money...
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The virtue of verse
How seriously are we to take the meaning of poetry? George Watson considers the costs of seeing poetry as largely spontaneous and self-expressive
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Get in shape: lose the fat
Clive Bloom sheds few tears for Middlesex's strangely underpopulated philosophy department - or any other corners of an academy short on recruits and long overdue for the axe. He argues that to save...
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The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth
How was Noah's Ark built? And while we're on the subject, exactly how much food and space did its animals require? And another thing: how much salt did the Earth contain at its origin?Pressing...
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The Canon: A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical. By Henry Sweet
My nomination for inclusion in the Canon goes to a grammar book. How ridiculous, you may think - how can a grammar book be inspiring? In the words of the American linguist H.A. Gleason, "the English-...
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Book of the week: Silent Summer
Jules Pretty looks at the changing face of our ecosystems, warts and all
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The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved
Some archive trawling and analysis would have improved this fine narrative, says Andrew Knapp
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porn.com: A dark economy's web of desire
Has a sexualised net brought democratic freedom or digital exploitation? Alison Adam mulls the issue
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Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities
In 1991, as this book notes, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched what would become the largest effort ever made to improve graduate education in the humanities in the US. The Graduate Education...
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Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition
What do they know of jazz, who only musicians know? A few months ago, these pages noticed with approval Harvey Cohen's sophisticated, culturally situated account of the life and work of Duke...
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Public Journalism 2.0: The Promise and Reality of a Citizen-Engaged Press
Amid the decline of newspapers, Frank Webster finds hope in the rise of the citizen journalist
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Chocolate, Women and Empire
In the 2000 film Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, a single mother arrives in a small French town where, to the consternation of the local priest, she establishes a small...
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Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and Other Brain Differences
Some marriages appear to be made in heaven. This book was one such for me, as the concept of neurodiversity is one I certainly espouse. The word is used, mostly in the US and Australia, to signal a...