Cary Nelson: ‘Ignorance’ fuels calls for Israel boycott
Former AAUP head and others aim to sway ‘non-fanatical’ supporters of sanctions with The Case against Academic Boycotts of Israel
Search
-
-
Tower of power grows as a pillar of Glasgow’s community
Local residents won’t be forgotten amid expansion to boost student experience and strategic research areas, says Anton Muscatelli
-
First shelf filled in Murty Classical Library of India
Professor’s dream as a student is realised as library launches first five volumes in bilingual series
-
Can an open-air lab tempt you to Siberia?
Russia’s Tomsk State University is banking on the region’s natural assets and an English language push to attract foreign students and scholars
-
Check your reflexes on UK’s first private medical school
Kevin Fong examines his responses to £35,000 a year degree
-
Forty years of a Kraftwerk revolution
Uwe Schütte on the German band whose electronic beats and futuristic visions are still relevant today
-
Peter Paul Catterall, George McKay, Claire O’Mahony, Lyla Quinn and Stephen Senn...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life, by Jie Li
Jonathan Mirsky on one family’s memories of life in a Shanghai alleyway, from Mao to the modern day
-
William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England, by W. B. Patterson
Alec Ryrie welcomes a study of an Elizabethan scholar that dispels a posthumous Puritan label
-
How to be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University, by Jeffrey J. Williams
Fred Inglis on a collection of articles that touches on, but should have focused on, the corruption of universities by corporate forces
-
Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, by David Motadel
Robert Gellately on how Hitler’s forces tried to forge alliances with Muslims during the Second World War
-
22 January 2015
Power building - Russia’s ambitious bid to modernise its higher education sector
-
Q&A with Lord Myners
We speak to London School of Economics’ chair of its court of governors and of the council
-
The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why it Doesn’t Feel Like Victory, by Martin Weller
Sandra Leaton Gray on a chilling true story of the monetisation of the contents of academics’ heads
-
Teacher training allocations a ‘slap in the face’
Universities denied extra places in favour of schools and SCITTs