The language of competition
Continental business schools are spearheading the attempt to access the lucrative market for higher education in English. Matthew Reisz reports
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Get wise to the product
'Knowledge for its own sake' is as narrowly utilitarian a remit for universities as the business-facing alternative, argues Gary Day
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When it comes to the crunch...
The economic downturn is affecting most sectors in the UK, including higher education. But, writes Hannah Fearn, it is not necessarily all bad news
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22 January 2009
Fighting talk - Europe is muscling in on the lucrative market for higher education in English
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Eyes open, mouth shut
Close and unobtrusive observations can reveal more to the open-minded researcher than focus groups and surveys, says Tara Brabazon
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‘I watch breathless as the 44th President of America takes his oath…but I shiver, and it’s not just the arctic wind’
Duncan Wu takes a British view of Obama Day
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UEA vice-chancellor to take early retirement
The vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Bill Macmillan, is to take early retirement at the end of the summer term.
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Bullied Blogger: An uninvited guest
15 January: I decided to get into work a little later than usual today and when I got in I was convinced that someone had been in my office as several files were out of place and a few books were...
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Universities await signs of Obama’s intentions
As the President is sworn in, academics listen closely for hints as to how he may help them. Jon Marcus reports
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A real force for change
The role of the corporate capitalist machine in the election of America’s first black President does not promise a more ‘liberal’ society, but other forces unleashed in the campaign just might, says...
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Student union calls for end to Tel Aviv centenary lectures
Motion demands Soas cancel series in light of Israeli military action in Gaza. Melanie Newman reports
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Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa
For Africanists, two perplexing questions have regularly surfaced over the years. Why has Africa remained so poor, and whatever happened to Richard Price? Now at least the second has been answered....
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Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics
In York's Jorvik Viking Centre, snug in the ostentation of its own display case, is a supercilious and eye-wateringly huge human turd. Nestling in its celebrity status, this magnificent stool squats...
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Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
Laleh Khalili is compelled to heap praise on a thought-provoking piece of writing
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The State of the Novel: Britain and Beyond
The title of Dominic Head's book is a trifle misleading. At a time when projects such as Franco Moretti's massive six-volume work are setting new benchmarks in extending our temporal and spatial...