Private reservations about a very public consultation
Behind closed doors, elite institutions were highly critical of White Paper reforms, finds John Morgan
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Analysis - Outreach - Inferior reach of fighters in poor's corner
‘Mixed economy’ for initiatives makes a difference but national ambit is missing. Jack Grove reports
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A house divided can't stand
Fawzi Ibrahim implores the UCU to work collectively to save itself from political turmoil and financial meltdown
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Unhappily ever after
Nick Petford tells a festive tale of the ivory-tower dwellers convinced that the sky is falling in on their world
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Walls and boundaries
Live tweeting at conferences is on the rise as audience members share with online followers, but some think it improper, impolite and plain rude. Chris Parr navigates the new-media rules
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Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
At last, a book exploring the impact of literature on the non-academic reader, writes Chris Jones
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Gender, Inequality, and Wages
Francine Blau was one of the first academic economists to focus her research on the relative position of women in the labour market, and she is clearly among the best. This book is the ninth in the...
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Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
In the history of science writ large, the scientific revolution has deeper roots than we once thought. Although it would have been difficult to imagine even two generations ago, scholarly consensus...
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The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
A.W. Purdue on the ramifications of the demise of Western civil society’s foundational structures
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The Things We Do and Why We Do Them
Why did the chicken cross the road? Why did you choose to have coffee this morning rather than tea? Before we can even attempt to provide an answer to these and similar questions, Constantine Sandis...
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What Art Is Like, in Constant Reference to the Alice Books
I wanted to love this book. I ought, perhaps, to have loved this book…but I didn’t. Despite the assurances on the dust jacket that Miguel Tamen’s study is “wonderful”, not to mention “highly original...
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Odds and quads
These are among the items in The Cabinet of Things used by Falmouth University's Academy for Innovation and Research as tools for stimulating creativity, particularly during "sandpit" problem-solving...
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Appointments
University of HuddersfieldJohn PlayleThe new dean of human and health sciences at the University of Huddersfield joked that you can break yourself into the role by playing "the new person for the...
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The first casualty
Tom Palaima muses on truth’s troubled relationship to the tales we tell about the heart of war
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20 December 2012
Front lines - Fact and fiction intertwined in tales of war, peace and Christmas truces