The president of the University of Chicago has defended the notion of a wide-ranging university education that cultivates the “habit of mind to integrate ideas”, in the face of employers’ demands for...
England could become the most expensive country in the world in which to study at a public university in light of Lord Browne of Madingley’s review of fees and funding, the main lecturers’ union has...
A cutting critique of the sexism of neuroscience - the phrenology du jour - made Hilary Rose chuckle in agreement
Simon Mitton seeks a more philosophical view of the state of knowledge in theoretical physics
Few people talk straight when it comes to sex - even otherwise very straight people tend to become coy, facetious, sanctimonious or simply silent. This book examines the role played by Greece and...
"Problem-posing education is revolutionary futurity. Hence it is prophetic (and, as such, hopeful)." So wrote Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968), one of the 20th...
A detailed and informed social critique of Christianity in the US today fascinates Keith Ward
A biographer of Clement Attlee faces the problem that his subject may, as Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds concedes, have had "no significant personality at all". Most contemporaries seem to have agreed that...
The back cover of Mark Lawrence Schrad's book describes it as a tour de force. Drawing on research in three different languages (Russian, Swedish and English), with 65 pages of footnotes, it merits...
The UK could learn lessons from a fascinating history of California's universities, finds Alan Ryan
Everyone has an opinion about the impact that new information and communication technologies (ICT) have on our lives, and anecdotes abound about the things they have done to us and our relationships...
ART AND DESIGN- Francesca Woodman and the Kantian SublimeBy Claire Raymond, faculty member in the department of sociology, University of Virginia. Ashgate, £50.00. ISBN 9780754663447In her feminist...
United StatesBiden vamps research cashUS vice-president Joe Biden has held a meeting with university leaders at the White House to draw attention to the $18 billion (£11.5 billion) in federal...
Taboos are tumbling as the modern student press becomes increasingly X-rated. Kaite Welsh reports
THE LEVERHULME TRUSTRESEARCH PROJECT GRANTSBasic sciencesAward winner: Hui LuInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £157,487Towards an understanding of weak and transient protein-protein...