Hopes are high that the President is 'singing their song'
The private education sector in the US is in buoyant mood, seeing good prospects both at home and abroad, reports Jon Marcus
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Book of the week: No Enchanted Palace
Simon Rushton on a unorthodox account of how the UN was born
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Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture
Words and meanings change over time, but this narrative leaves Lynne Segal craving more analysis
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The Historiographic Perversion
While the mass killings of the Armenians in 1915, which claimed more than 1 million lives, have been recognised as a genocide by many historians and more than 20 governments around the world, there...
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The Canon: Les Regles de l'Art: Genese et Structure du Champ Litteraire. By Pierre Bourdieu
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is perhaps best known for La Distinction (1979), but it is his 1992 work Les Regles de l'Art that in my view best sums up the themes he explored...
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The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World
To tackle the Earth's problems, we must look at the culture behind them, finds Laurence Coupe
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Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
Men serving on the front line are like puppets on a string, postulated German playwright Wolfgang Borchert on his return from the Eastern Front: all individual thought and impulses reduced to an...
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War, or as we prefer to call it in the South, the War Between the States (or, alternatively, the War of Northern Aggression or the War for Southern Independence), has captivated me...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Theory of Island Biogeography RevisitedEdited by Jonathan B. Losos, professor in organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University, and Robert E....
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Divided academy won't boost quality 1
How disappointing it was to read Peter Williams' comments in your magazine ("Engage with quality assurance or face state takeover, scholars told", 19 November).Williams, the former chief executive of...
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Divided academy won't boost quality 2
The Government's approach to quality is to remove support from courses regarded as unsatisfactory. Such a policy seems destructive. A more positive approach would be to use metrics of quality to...
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Priorities aren't working
Academics are concerned about the objectivity of a £4.4 million Economic and Social Research Council call, with additional support from the Medical Research Council, for bids to study the happiness...
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Missing members 1
Your article on higher education mission groups sets out to provide a complete picture of the bodies representing institutions in a diverse higher education ecology ("Do you want to be in my gang?",...
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Missing members 2
In your piece on the groups representing UK universities, you include the recently renamed University Alliance. Historically, it consisted of all those and only those institutions that were not...
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Undervalued exports
In 2007, the British Council published an estimate of the value of the education-export sector to the UK in a publication called Global Value - The Value of UK Education and Training Exports: An...