Cause and effect: metaphysical insights fire top guns' imagination
USAF learns from philosopher's understanding of unintended consequences. Matthew Reisz writes
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Heriot-Watt plans to extend long global reach
It is not the biggest university in the UK - indeed, it is not even the biggest in Edinburgh - but on the global stage, Heriot-Watt University already punches above its weight.It has unveiled plans...
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News in brief
United StatesPolitical correctness gone mad?Two universities in the US have been accused of offering preferential treatment to minority students. The Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative...
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They're here to stay: ratings demand a change of tactics
For good or ill, the US academy is having to learn to live with student evaluation sites, finds Jon Marcus
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We've been here before
Calls to save Egyptian cultural heritage ring hollow when those making them are blind to the past, argues Christina Riggs
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Geography and Environmental Sciences round-up
The Atlas of World HungerAuthors: Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-NelsonEdition: FirstPublisher: University of Chicago PressPages: 216Price: £29.00ISBN 9780226039077Using the conceptual framework...
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History round-up
A Concise Companion to HistoryEditor: Ulinka RublackEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 480Price: £25.00ISBN 9780199291212As old certainties in the discipline prove less secure,...
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Literature round-up
Modernist Literature 1890-1950: Texts, Contexts, Connections (York Notes Companions)Author: Gary DayEdition: FirstPublisher: Pearson EducationPages: 352Price: £10.99ISBN 9781408204764Via a...
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Medicine round-up
Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery: Guiding you Through DiagnosisAuthors: Hugo Farne, Edward Norris-Cervetto and James Warbrick-SmithEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 592Price...
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Politics and international relations round-up
Global PoliticsAuthor: Andrew HeywoodEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 584Price: £29.99ISBN 9781403989826Heywood, a renowned scholar and author of several acclaimed textbooks, here...
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You mean Offa is toothless? The reason for policy chaos
Ministers' muddle caused by belief that access chief could 'impose' fees, Rebecca Attwood writes
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Cuts endanger Anglo-American supremacy
UK universities could be eclipsed by those in emerging economies such as China and instead become more aligned with their middle-ranking counterparts in continental Europe if public funding continues...
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No hard Left ahead, declares departing Porter
The "hard Left" has little chance of gaining control of the National Union of Students and support for its "fetishism" with street protests and occupations is already dwindling, the outgoing...
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Balancing budgets is hard when funders won't go all the way
EUA report finds co-funding just one of the threats to financial sustainability. Paul Jump reports
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Legal profession frets about diversity and oversupply
Senior lawyers have voiced fears that the coming rises in tuition fees could harm the quality and diversity of their profession and have called for limits on the number of trainee barristers.