Willetts’ special adviser post for Ryan Shorthouse in doubt
Delayed approval from No 10 raises questions about future of role
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Leverhulme Trust to fund 150 PhD scholarships
£10 million scheme set up to counteract disincentivisation of undergraduate debt for potential researchers
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Inspiring books show humanities’ value, say scholars
Eminent academics restate worth of ‘knowledge for its own sake’
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Campus close-up: Cranfield University
Head of postgraduate powerhouse Sir Peter Gregson wants to ensure doors are open to all
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Jonathan Eaton, Roger Morgan, Craig Newbery-Jones, R. C. Richardson and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Antinomies of Realism, by Fredric Jameson
The latest work from a leading literary critic expounds a wealth of ideas, says Robert Eaglestone
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Going Beyond Google Again: Strategies for Using and Teaching the Invisible Web, by Jane Devine and Francine Egger-Sider
Search differently, says Sarah Ison
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Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More, by Thomas Betteridge
Peter Gwyn finds an attempt to put More’s writings into historical context less than clear
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What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon, by Ankhi Mukherjee
Authors emulating Western literature have created their own voice, says Robert Appelbaum
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Rousseau’s Hand: The Crafting of a Writer, by Angelica Goodden
The simple life may be a carefully contrived one, says Biancamaria Fontana
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Acts of Union and Disunion: What has Held the UK Together and What is Dividing it?, by Linda Colley
Violence, accident and luck have all made this young federal union, says Donald MacRaild
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Teaching we can do; learning’s out of our hands
What parents and schools fail to do in 18 years is unlikely to be accomplished in a couple of courses, says Alan Ryan
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The harmful idea of student ‘vulnerability’
A growing zeal to address ‘well-being’ diverts resources from those who really need help, says Kathryn Ecclestone
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The week in higher education
- Vice-chancellors in the UK often look enviously across the pond at the pay awarded to their US peers. But they might be less enamoured with the conditions foisted on Gwendolyn Boyd when she became...
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A peek at ߣߣÊÓƵ's Petri dish
What can the UK learn from the uncapped student numbers 'experiment' that is already in full swing Down Under? Explosive" is the word used by one vice-chancellor to describe this week's figures...