Guiding the clever to wisdom’s shores
I was fascinated by the quote from Tony Blair in 1999 promoting 50 per cent entry in UK higher education: “In today’s world there is no such thing as too clever. The more you know, the further you...
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Foxfire’s sisters in arms
Laurent Cantet’s gritty group portrait of a 1950s girl gang of teenage avengers
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Geoffrey Alderman, Liz Gloyn, Nigel Newbutt, Robbie Pickles and R. C. Richardson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59, by David Kynaston
Roger Morgan on a vivid social history of Britons seeking to modernise
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On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth, by Toby Tyrrell
Jon Turney on the latest scientific findings regarding interactions between life and our planet that do not support the Gaia theory
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The Efficiency Trap: Finding a Better Way to Achieve a Sustainable Energy Future, by Steve Hallett
Joanna Depledge is disturbed by advice to be passive in the face of human-induced apocalypse
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France and the Age of Revolution: Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte, by William Doyle
Robert Zaretsky on a study that shows how history defeats not just prediction, but also our predilection for theory
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London Underground: A Cultural Geography, by David Ashford
A. W. Purdue on the evolution of the Tube system
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King’s law expert defends academic appeals business
‘Not just money-making exercise’, says company founder
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Crowdfunding hope for postgraduate support
StudentFunder aims to become ‘one-stop shop’ for those in need
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Small fall in student numbers taught in Welsh
But more academics are able to teach in the tongue, data show
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Postdoc Twitter channel sets sights on North America
#ECRchat looks to offer global advice
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The sunny side of leading a Malaysian university
Graeme Wilkinson left Wales to head a private institution that was more familiar than it first appeared
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Odds and quads
This 400-year-old Bible is probably the most infamous of the rare religious books and manuscripts held in the University of Leicester’s Robjohns Collection.
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The week in higher education - 8 August 2013
“Overseas students from wealthy families are renting some of London’s most desirable and expensive flats,” the Evening Standard reported on 1 August. One estate agent said that at the new 65 Duke...