There are at least two ways of doing social science. The traditional way is to observe a phenomenon, often a problem or a puzzle, and then explain it. For example, why are divorce rates in society X...
Despite its title, Ad Women is more a history of the development of US consumer culture viewed through a female lens. Throughout there is a tension between the feminine and the feminist, which is...
A study of top US institutions fails to see the bigger picture, says Linda M. Perkins
The rise in flu cases registered in the UK just before Christmas saw infection rates reach an eight-year peak, duly dubbed a "crisis" by some newspapers.This wave of illness affected 60, 70 or...
Peter Meyers' search for the answer to the question of when the war against terrorism began represents a noble attempt to engage with the confusing state of contemporary international relations.As...
Business schools should reassert their intellectual status not focus on revenue, says Malcolm Gillies
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The increasing bureaucratisation and the ascendancy of managerialism in mainland China's universities has been a worry for some time, but now a scholar has produced data to show that the concerns are...
Shock was expressed this week at the news that our Vice-Chancellor was one of the few higher education executives in the country not currently facing an ultimatum from their Board of Governors.In an...
Kevin Fong welcomes Obama's promise to restore the importance of science
Cary Cooper reflects on the ups and downs, the friendships and rivalries, the knife-edge thrills and raw passion of years spent loving a tribal and beautiful game
By forcing academics to do R&D for industry, ministers stifle the type of curiosity-driven work that delivers the biggest bangs
Nigel Yates, an internationally renowned ecclesiastical historian, has died.
Research councils recently reminded us that they are required to demonstrate the impact of the research they fund. These bodies, our proxies for protecting the health and development of academic...
Without prejudice to sensitive and ongoing discussions with institutions where Higher Education Funding Council for England funding has been overpaid because of inaccurate data returns, let me...