Vince Cable has opened the door to radical changes in the structure and funding of higher education in a landscape of reduced public investment, with potential innovations including bigger graduate...
As world league tables gain influence they need to reflect the multi-faceted nature of universities’ activities, says Seeram Ramakrishna
No filter: Mathew White on our readiness to swallow the hype that costs us the Earth
Christopher Innes on the first collection of essays to focus on a single British playwright of the 1990s
We have all heard a story or two about parents who disapprove of their children's choice of spouse. Whether we think of the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or the Draytons in...
The notion that the Irish were exiles driven out of Ireland by poverty, hardship and English colonialism was hardly new when, in 1985, Kerby Miller's weighty, learned study hit the bookshelves. After...
Anthony King on a law scholar's ambitious plan to give the UK its own governmental charter at last
This new volume consists of eight chapters written by nine contributors who between them have experience of continuing education in more than a dozen universities. They illustrate the issues that...
Tony Judt applies the ominous Oliver Goldsmith soundbite that provides this book's title to a Western world afflicted by economic crisis, gross inequalities, insecurity and fear. One of his messages...
If you look past its idiosyncratic style, Chris Howls believes this book's underlying message adds up
Made in America is a thoughtful assessment of the patterns of American life over the course of the past several centuries. Claude S. Fischer, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley,...
The militarisation of entertainment, or what Roger Stahl astutely labels "militainment", is a new social formation for our catastrophic times. In a year when The Hurt Locker won both cinema awards...
Has Europe vanquished its monsters or have they just changed shape? wonders Robert Eaglestone
Andrew Gamble finds hope in a persuasive analysis of how nations once in conflict can become allies
The contemplation of the horrid or sordid or disgusting, by an artist, is the necessary and negative aspect of the impulse toward the pursuit of beauty." Thus T.S. Eliot insists on the symbiosis...