The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War, by Margaret MacMillan
Roger Morgan on the reasons why so much blood was shed
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Who picks up the tab for growth?
Willetts, like Robbins, envisages more graduates, but he is similarly reluctant to explain how expansion will be funded
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Uclan data point to falling student recruitment
Internal papers show 3 per cent decline in firm acceptances for University of Central Lancashire
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Research collaboration patterns in Europe
More than half (57 per cent) of all European research papers are written by authors with collaborators outside their institution, a study has found
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Research cluster explores all things gothic
Manchester Met launches interdisciplinary Centre for Gothic Studies
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JoVE journal’s videos take strain out of new science
Model is saving research from ‘scourge of irreproducibility’, says founder Moshe Pritsker
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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