Campaign launched to challenge EPSRC 'diktats'
The head of a new protest group campaigning for reform of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has called for its chief executive, David Delpy, to take action or step down
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Thinktank attacks 'perverse incentive' on overseas students
Including students in net migration statistics creates a “perverse incentive” for the government to drive down foreign student numbers even though this does relatively little to cut long-term...
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Inside Higher Ed: Playing Politics With Poli Sci
By Doug Lederman for Inside Higher Ed
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Side effects? Nobody said anything about side effects…
Researchers into complementary and alternative medicine are disregarding “basic rules of publication ethics” by routinely failing to report the potentially serious side effects of treatments, an...
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It’s good to talk: poll points to wise counsel
Almost 60 per cent of graduates who received counselling at university say it played a vital role in supporting their academic work, a poll has found.
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Matchmakers invited to share £100 million research partnership pot
Universities will be able to bid for up to £35 million in matched public funding for major research capital projects as part of a new programme, the government has announced.
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Aberdeen decides against alternative medicine chair
A university has decided against a controversial proposal to establish a chair in a brand of alternative medicine that advocates mistletoe as a cure for cancer.
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UK is 10th among best global environments for universities
The UK has been placed 10th in a ranking of the world’s best higher education systems, with the US topping the list.
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The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
Women are born to demand their share - just ask the hunter-gatherers, argues Camilla Power
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The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
Philip Robins on the Middle Eastern despots who held power for so long and lost it so rapidly
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Maps of Utopia: H.G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture
How much is society prepared to invest in the quality of the education it offers and to make it easily accessible to its entire population? What can and should art and literature do for the societies...
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Darkness Before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today
How hard life is for immigrants, exploited and robbed of their weekly wages by Neapolitans. What happens in a degraded economic area of Southern Italy when newcomers arrive illegally? The...
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All in a Don's Day
The chance to review a series of blogs on scholarly life was an offer Tom Palaima couldn't refuse
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Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany
"Licence to kill" - this was the message given to the German people during the era of the Third Reich by the two most morally authoritative groups in society, the churches and the universities,...
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion
Why can't we all just get along? According to moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the reason is that human nature is intrinsically "groupish" and judgemental. Haidt weaves together updated versions of...