Policymaking ‘requires engineering advisers’
Government told to appoint engineering experts, writes Zoë Corbyn
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Two heads to step down
The principal of Royal Holloway and the vice-chancellor of York St John call time on their tenures. Melanie Newman reports
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Kingston showed ‘lack of regard’ for external examiner’s role, says QAA
But agency investigation finds no evidence of widespread problems with standards. Melanie Newman reports
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I can't hear you...
Ministers regularly state their commitment to 'evidence-based' policy, but then seem to ignore academics. Rebecca Attwood asks if it is merely confusion over what constitutes evidence
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From the lab to the lobby
Who stands up for science and scientific rigour in policy circles? Zoë Corbyn investigates
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Faith, hope and the academy
As UK universities with a Christian heritage seek to collaborate more closely, some academics are calling for more explicitly theologically inspired institutions. Hannah Fearn reports
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Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence
Shelley King finds that some things stay the same in an analysis of schooldays then and now
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A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government
Television drama generates the best US presidents. Jed Bartlett (The West Wing) and David Palmer (24) offered a morally righteous alternative to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. A Pinnacle of Feeling...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC2
1. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin, £9.99 ISBN 97801410400112. The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of...
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Book of the week: Wars, Guns and Votes
Joanna Lewis gets to grip with the workings of African democracies
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The week in books
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice, university reader in philosophical theology and fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge. Chatto and Windus, £18.99, ISBN...
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Star Trek
A work of science-fiction trivia transports Gary Day to a place lacking in intellectual atmosphere
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Bringing Down the House: The Crisis in Britain's Regional Theatres
This is a book about the history of the Arts Council and an assessment of regional theatre in Britain. Its subject is that much-visited battleground where funding bodies and artists meet to nervously...
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Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East
Samuel Huntington's thesis of a "clash of civilisations", formulated as the Cold War ended, has proved to be one of the most influential ideas in international-relations theory. Among political...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized ArchitectureBy Lauren S. Weingarden, associate professor of art history, Florida State University. Ashgate, £65.00. ISBN...