The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China 1901–1956, by Jan Kiely
Jonathan Mirsky on the attempts to impose thought reform on prisoners in pre-Communist China
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British Culture and the First World War: Experience, Representation and Memory, by Toby Thacker
Angela Smith on stories of the lives of 11 creatives interwoven to give an overview of the Great War from a range of perspectives
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How would you change the National Student Survey?
Ahead of the annual Battle of Ideas Festival, we asked you to tell us what you think is missing from the country-wide canvassing of university student views
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‘Simplistic’ redundancy metrics criticised
Warwick staff concerned about ‘single cash metric’ used to identify redundancies in life sciences
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Hong Kong’s students ask: if not now, when?
The territory’s young people have bravely asked the question that its universities have ducked, observes Bruce Macfarlane
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What’s the point of the party conference?
Martin McQuillan takes a whistle-stop tour of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat events
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Academy’s fat cats ‘too smart’ to attack Labour’s £6,000 fees policy
Liam Byrne, the shadow universities minister, also urges the sector to speak out to prevent a ‘disastrous’ exit from the European Union
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Dissemination of dissent: lessons from Iran’s revolution
Iran shaped the career of Annabelle Sreberny, professor of global media and communications at Soas, but doing research there remains difficult
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Education and satisfaction are antithetical
Why keep on assessing how students feel? asks Joanna Williams
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Business schools: thinkers v doers
Apprentice interviewer Claude Littner offers UK business schools advice on balancing the practical and the theoretical
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After Chávez
Mike Cole praises Venezuela for “the promotion of social democracy and the mass alleviation of poverty” (“What is the best bloc for a 21st-century education system?”, From Where I Sit, 9 October). He...
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Intellectual cowardice
Scholarship can be a fearsome activity, as Chris Walsh discovered when he set out to investigate the figure of the coward
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16 October 2014
Only the brave - Facing up to intellectual cowardice
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THE podcast: Claude Littner interview
Download the podcastBusinessman Claude Littner, known for his appearances alongside Sir Alan Sugar on reality television programme The Apprentice, talks to ߣߣƵ reporter Chris...
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Graduates should be matched to local jobs, says report
Universities should encourage graduates to stay in the city where they studied by helping them to find jobs and housing, a report recommends.