Grant letter outlines cut in student number control limits
The government is to clamp down on over-recruitment of students by universities in order to keep costs under control, according to this year’s grant letter.
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Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today's Computers
John Gilbey welcomes clear explanations of the invisible technology in devices we use every day
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Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude?
The admission or denial of entry to foreign nationals is fraught with moral dilemmas, finds Paul Scheffer
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Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism
Without having lived through it first hand, it is hard to grasp the magnitude of the change to daily life in the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the region's Communist regimes in the late 20th...
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Memory, Trauma and History: Essays on Living with the Past
Michael Roth, the author of this exceptional and wide-ranging collection of essays, is the president of Wesleyan University, which, in addition, one imagines, to being a very time-consuming job, also...
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A Case for Irony
James Garvey considers whether human identity is a conscious construct or for ever veiled in mystery
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Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience
The phrases "internal colonisation" and "self-colonisation" have, through overuse, become associated with political correctness. Russia has long been both subject and object of colonisation....
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Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
All mighty historical upheavals are crises of belief and ideas. The present splitting open of neoliberal capitalism is no exception. What happens when an economic system and its political order reach...
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Re-engage public to help fill growing democratic deficit
New chair of Political Studies Association stresses discipline's key social role. Matthew Reisz reports
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Work the room? That's not my job - I'm a researcher, not a seller
Two-fifths of academics surveyed resent pressure to commercialise their work. David Matthews reports
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NUS: inductions should continue beyond 'hello'
Undergraduates should have study skills classes throughout their entire degree course rather than just a handful of sessions in their first year, the National Union of Students has said.
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News in brief
United StatesThou shalt not teach thisA US university has dropped plans to offer a course on how biblical principles can be applied to business management after objections from civil liberties groups...
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Unwelcome 1980s revival threatens Hungary's academy
Scholars say moves against critics and their families echo communist repression. Thomas Escritt writes
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Grant winners
CANCER RESEARCH UK• Award winner: Geoff Higgins• Institution: University of Oxford• Value: £741,000Investigation of the molecular basis of tumour radiosensitivityACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH• Award winner...
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HE bill's suspension won't derail reforms
The government's apparent move to suspend the higher education bill will not automatically derail the expansion of private provision, according to government critics and leading private institutions.