Old boys and backhanders
Zhang Shuguang, a former railway ministry official, recently went on trial for corruption. He pleaded guilty, and admitted to having spent nearly half of the $7.8 million (£4.9 million) in bribes...
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Small US colleges scramble for survival
Institutions struggle as the pool of potential students shrinks
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Daniel Binney, Paul Greatrix, Sara Read, Nigel Rodenhurst and Richard J. Williams...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Higher Education in America, by Derek Bok
An evaluation of US tertiary education prompts Mary Stuart to reflect on how the UK is changing
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The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City, by William B. Helmreich
Flora Samuel on a sociologist’s observations of everyday life in the Big Apple
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Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art, by Harry W. Greene
Jules Pretty on a combined autobiography of a field biologist and celebration of nature
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The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler, by Ben Urwand
Philip Kemp on the cooperation and acquiescence demonstrated by LA film studios to the Nazis
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The Art of Listening in the Early Church, by Carol Harrison
Ursula King on how the new Christian message was communicated by listening to the spoken word through teaching and preaching
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957, by Frank Dikötter
Jennifer Altehenger on a compelling account of the Communist involvement in the Civil War and of the first eight years of Communist rule
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Gotcha!
Source: AlamyHere today. Here tomorrow.Our Head of Campus Security, Brigadier T. W. Trouncing, has praised the University of Sunderland and the University of Ulster for what he describes as “their...
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Willetts: teaching must be as valued as research
During THE podcast, universities minister points to Robbins’ example
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The week in higher education - 24 October 2013
Being forced to live in a travel hotel equidistant from London and Norwich didn’t work out too well for Alan Partridge. But 100 Anglia Ruskin University undergraduates starting term by living at a...
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OFT scrutinises sector: could it challenge the fees cap?
Some in the academy believe it could
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Moocs hotly debated at Battle of Ideas
Massive open online courses: new horizon or redundancy tool? Experts fight it out
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Odds and quads - 24 October 2013
The Women’s Library, based at the London School of Economics since the beginning of this year, is the UK’s leading resource for the study of women’s history and the women’s movement