The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, by Angus Deaton
Kitty Stewart finds wisdom in a study of progress and disparity between nations and people
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Hefce offers cash to promote back-office tie-ups
Sector yet to take full advantage of VAT exemption for ‘cost-sharing groups’
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Make your marque worldwide
Jim Northover considers whether the next global “mega-brand” could be a UK university
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31 October 2013
To every season, turn - Lynne Segal on ageing, activism and life as a ‘sexual warrior’
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THE Scholarly Web - 31 October 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Douglas Lowry, 1951-2013
A composer and conductor who played a major role in American musical education has died
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Campus round-up - 31 October 2013
Source: AlamyTackling a sport’s hidden lossesAmerican football players may struggle to plan and organise their lives in later life after suffering brain abnormalities caused by head injuries. Brain...
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Grant winners - 31 October 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSocial sciencesAward winner: David Simon CowanInstitution: University of BristolValue: £71,686Shared ownership: crisis momentsAward winner: Carolyn...
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Odds and quads - 31 October 2013
These gorgeous fabric samples are taken from a scrapbook that was once used by students at Bradford Technical College and is now held in the Special Collections of the University of Bradford
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G-spot no longer blind
Steve Fuller urges us to judge the continued viability of proposals from the Robbins report in terms of the best exploitation of “human capital - or talent” (“Intellectual fruit of neoliberal seedbed...
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Emperor's new Mooc
I find the renewed hype about online courses depressing: we’ve been here before. In his 2003 book The Flickering Mind, US journalist Todd Oppenheimer considers such courses to be less effective than...
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Partners in pedagogy
I read with interest John Colley’s recent article “It’s got to be good” (Opinion, 10 October). While raising important issues, he misses the point on a number of levels.First, he falls into the...
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Graded inequality
There was significant media coverage of the poor results recorded for the UK’s 16- to 25-year-olds under the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Programme for the International...
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Unrewarding game of risk
John Gill asserts that in their research excellence framework preparations, “game-players” can “base the number of researchers submitted on the number of solid impact case studies they can detail -...
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News in brief - 31 October 2013
IsraelBranch of peaceA US university is planning to open a branch campus in the Arab capital of Israel in a bid to bring Arabs and Jews together and to expand its overseas presence. John Sharp,...