Rapid response
“Art is long, life is short,” goes the old saying. Scholarship and scientific research suffer much the same condition. They are long. But art, scholarship and scientific research no longer struggle...
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The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome by Gordon Campbell
This is a curious book to have come out of Oxford University Press in that it is written in a refreshingly accessible style, displays much erudition, yet has no scholarly footnotes and often engages...
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The week in higher education - 23 May 2013
Just as relations between open-access advocates and their bête noire, the publisher Elsevier, were starting to thaw ever so slightly, a PR disaster for the company threatens to plunge it back into...
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Sometimes it's hard to be a man
Working-class students struggle with ‘composite masculinity’, study finds
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Social media use may flag up likely dropouts
Lack of online interaction could signal need for support, research suggests
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Bleak prognosis for health funding budget transfer
Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say
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Neoliberal limits
Can the Social Science Centre really build a local institution offering a reimagined higher education free of the market? Alastair Bonnett meets participants in an alternative knowledge economy
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OECD finds greater efficiency outside the elite
Study identifies better use of research capacity outside Anglo-American sphere
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American Umpire, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
A critique of the US-as-empire is a good call, says J. Simon Rofe
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State of independence could prove costly, Scots warned
Nation likely to lose fruitful position in UK research system, experts say
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EdX signs up 15 new members
The US massive open online course platform edX has signed up 15 more universities, more than doubling its number of higher education partners.
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Elsevier distances itself from open-access article
The publisher Elsevier has disassociated itself from an article by a trade association it belongs to that condemns proposed open-access mandates in several US states.
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Unions urge staff to reject final pay offer
Staff in higher education are being urged to reject a “disappointing” 1 per cent final pay offer by universities.