THE podcast: 25 September - 1 October 2014 issue review
Download the podcastConcerns about the University of Central Lancashire’s Cyprus campus, the Labour party conference, the ߣߣÊÓƵ books section, and reaction to the Scottish...
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The week in higher education
ߣߣÊÓƵ was able to reveal this week that the University of Warwick is at last preparing to lift the suspension imposed on lecturer Thomas Docherty
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Earth to economists: your ivory tower isolation is not an option
Economics is the subject of substantial controversy in Germany of late, with many articulate and emphatic appeals for the academic subject to do more for the cause of ethics.Throughout much of the...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Brazilians get apology for poor work ethic email
Some 70 Science Without Borders students at Southampton received a message citing faculty complaints about their performance
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As graduate numbers fall, Brazil looks to raise quality
Government aims to prioritise standards over enrolment, claims minister
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Boris for PM? Don't forget his record in higher education
Boris Johnson was a popular shadow HE minister but universities might not find him so cuddly in the top job, writes Wes Streeting
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Joan of Arc: A History, by Helen Castor
Rachel Moss praises an elegant account that sets a charismatic Maid of Orleans in political context
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Chris Marlin, 1952-2014
A pro vice-chancellor who forged a new international dimension for the University of Sussex has died
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Careless talk costs you
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on academic Steven Salaita’s angry postings about Israel
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy, by Francis Fukuyama
Roger Morgan on an exploration of the current state of our political institutions
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Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago, by Lawrence Ralph
Dick Hobbs on an ethnographic study exploring the resilience of youths whose lives have been marred by violence
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Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, by Jordana Moore Saggese
Tracey Warr on an examination of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work – his inspirations and his relationship to artistic and ideological debates of the late 20th century
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Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays, by Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean
Peter J. Smith applauds a study of an innovative company of actors and their influence on Elizabethan theatre
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The unacceptable persistence of inequality in wealth and power
To share the wealth we must challenge attitudes that perpetuate the great divide, finds Mary Evans