Tara Brabazon: Book to the future: how bookshops can survive
The internet does not have to spell disaster for the publishing industry: Tara Brabazon visits the San Francisco bookstore that holds out hope
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Axe hovers over Imperial’s faculty of medicine
Up to 130 jobs could go, UCU report claims. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Opinion: Unesco conference stresses importance of higher education in development
The Paris meeting provides an important forum for discussing key issues in improving university standards around the world. Laura E. Rumbley, Liz Reisberg and Philip G. Altbach report
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Gloria Monday: External pain
Behold the upholders of standards – megalomaniacs who can’t count, writes Gloria Monday
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Leading academic attacks tick-box science and politically correct quackery
Managerialism promotes the rise of ‘magic medicine’, says David Colquhoun. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Judicial mediation – a different approach to alternative dispute resolution?
In this article, we consider judicial mediation, a relatively new form of workplace dispute resolution, in which the employment judge acts as mediator. What is judicial mediation?Judicial mediation...
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‘Massification’ takes toll on professoriate standards
Academics lack qualifications because of spiralling global demand, Unesco warns. Phil Baty reports
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Bombay dreams
India hopes to join the superpower elite, but there is not enough international quality in its higher education system. Phil Baty reports on how it aims to raise standards by overhauling regulation...
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Take the time to get it right
Philip Altbach advises India to tread carefully - the international experience shows that simply throwing open the doors to foreign providers is no panacea
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Bubble trouble
The humanities are in the same state financial markets were in before they crashed. Assessing the growing mountain of toxic intellectual debt, Philip Gerrans considers going short on some overvalued...
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In search of singular insight
Social sciences have advanced little because inquiry and discovery are stifled by 'theory' and 'the search for order' in the academy. Gary Thomas says we need to break away from the pattern
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Book of the week: Cosmopolitan Islanders
A.W. Purdue reflects on Britain's abiding interest in the Continent's past
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Black Beauty, Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics
Maxine Leeds Craig discusses the highlights and lowlights of black women's beautifying practices
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The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy
On a clear night, it is nice to look up and imagine that all the stars form a unified celestial community. They do, of course, in a sense. But they are much farther away from each other (and us) than...
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The Canon: Dictionnaire Raisonné de L'Architecture Française du XIe au XVIe Siècle. By Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
I have long admired the immense contribution made to the Enlightenment by French scholars, especially Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and others manifest in that vast undertaking, the...