Didn't get the memo
Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, defends a "wide-ranging" higher educational policy ("Cultivate minds that can integrate, avoid too much specialisation?", timeshighereducation....
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7 October 2010
Kaleidoscopic vision - The pioneers shifting disciplinary boundaries
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Tara Brabazon: The unsustainable shock of the new
We all collude in the hype cycle that turns shiny ‘new media’ into forgotten, junk-generating ‘dead media’, and it’s time to look at the costs, argues Tara Brabazon
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Nobel wins ‘exemplars’ of UK excellence threatened by cuts, scientists claim
The UK’s second Nobel award in two days attests to the research excellence that will be endangered if the research budget is slashed in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, scientists have...
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Share the dream and state the case
To secure our future in hard times, we must make tough choices and ensure that society is aware of higher education’s value, argues Paul Marshall
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Inside Higher Ed: Transgender athletes, college teams
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Let scientists think, entrepreneurs create business opportunities and graduates pay more
Scientists must be liberated from the idea that they are “just cogs in an economic machine”, the Conservative Party conference has heard.
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Research identifies quintuple threat if fees cap is lifted
Degree-course fees are likely to escalate rapidly and could reach as much as five times the current sum if the existing cap is lifted, an education charity has warned.
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An estate of mind: learning to build the perfect campus
Defining institutional mission is the cornerstone of a successful development, Matthew Reisz hears
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Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower
The University of Gloucestershire has lost a tribunal case brought by a manager who claimed she was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the state of the institution’s finances.
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‘Cultivate minds that can integrate, avoid too much specialisation’
The president of the University of Chicago has defended the notion of a wide-ranging university education that cultivates the “habit of mind to integrate ideas”, in the face of employers’ demands for...
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UCU warns of top position in a ranking to avoid
England could become the most expensive country in the world in which to study at a public university in light of Lord Browne of Madingley’s review of fees and funding, the main lecturers’ union has...
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Book of the Week: Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
A cutting critique of the sexism of neuroscience - the phrenology du jour - made Hilary Rose chuckle in agreement
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The End of Discovery: Are We Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable?
Simon Mitton seeks a more philosophical view of the state of knowledge in theoretical physics
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Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity
Few people talk straight when it comes to sex - even otherwise very straight people tend to become coy, facetious, sanctimonious or simply silent. This book examines the role played by Greece and...