Sense of style, no lack of substance
Image consultant: ‘jumble sale’ dress code does not an intellectual make. Matthew Reisz writes
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Talk of fair play is not enough
David Cameron can court India’s students all he likes, but the UK’s immigration policy is hardly bowling them over
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14 - 21 February 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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Surprise order of Bath has landed us with a right royal chancer
Joanna Lewis asks whether appointing ‘a decent enough upper-class numpty’ as chancellor is the best her alma mater can do
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Big picture from all angles
Humanities must embrace interdisciplinarity and reclaim their key role in our fractured world, says Michael Worton
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GMC may expand sanctions for failing UK medical schools
Regulator to review range of options for institutions falling short on quality measures
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Institute of the Arts Barcelona makes pitch to UK performing arts students
New UK-validated for-profit college to sell itself on sun, sea and low fees
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Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart
Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective
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The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
Robert A. Segal on a comprehensive study of the growth of the world’s biggest religion
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Karen McAulay, Jules Pretty, Peter J. Smith, Sharon Wheeler and Sue White...
…on The House on an Irish Hillside, One Billion Hungry, Our Man in Havana, Return to the Stones and Water: All That Matters
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CDBU cordially invites...
Sir Adrian Smith, vice-chancellor of the University of London, chastises colleagues in the Council for the Defence of British Universities who take “a rather naive view that beauty, truth and...
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Healthy PR exercise
Negative comments about the University of Leicester’s handling of the Richard III announcement show how far we have to go before professional public relations is accepted by all research disciplines...
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Watered-down argument
If psychotherapists want respect for alternatives to randomised controlled trials, they must outline them clearly, not model their rhetoric on that of homeopaths (“Jury’s out on trial by ideological...
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Where beagles share
Roger Brown (Letters, 14 February) attacks our independent schools with the usual charge of elitism and more especially damns them for spending money on beagle kennels. Recent research at the...
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Open to abuse? We do it to ourselves
Yet more catastrophic timidity from the UK’s universities, this time over open access (“Fool’s gold?”, 14 February). The system being proposed is one in which universities and academics will gain...