What Are Universities For?, by Stefan Collini
Fred Inglis applauds a polemic on higher education's purpose and the perils it faces
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Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress
Judith Weingarten is fascinated by the woman who, amid decline and fall, ruled an empire for 12 years
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The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios
In Susan Hill's superlative ghost story The Small Hand, a London book dealer named Adam travels on behalf of a wealthy client to a remote French monastery in search of Shakespeare's First Folio. Hill...
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Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes
In our troubled times, there is much to learn from John Maynard Keynes' approach to understanding and remedying the problems of stagnating economies and unstable financial systems.Interest in Keynes...
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
An investigation into our behaviour shows we're not as logical as we imagine, Miriam Teschl discovers
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Mediating Climate Change
Julie Doyle used to study techniques for the visualisation of the body in the context of anatomy; in her spare time she was a Greenpeace campaigner. This book blends those preoccupations: it asks how...
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Stravinsky's Ballets
Igor Stravinsky's stature as one of the most influential composers of the modern era seems all but incontestable, and Charles Joseph's study accordingly situates its subject as the 20th-century...
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Core and margin plan tests the limits of collegial behaviour
Small gains for colleges may come at cost of university collaborations. David Matthews reports
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News in brief
United StatesContraceptives cause headachesA Pennsylvania university has denied that it is encouraging sexual promiscuity among students after gaining international notoriety for allowing...
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Services and Delivery Research programme• Award winner: Russell Mannion• Institution: University of Birmingham• Value: £449,878Effective board governance...
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Occupy publishing
Timothy Gowers is boycotting Elsevier and hopes to spark reform that will replace expensive journals with a more rational system
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Combination acts
Collaboration should not be a dirty word in the arts, says Stephen Mumford
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Institutions count cost of exceeding student cap
Stiff fines await over-recruiters, with London Met facing a possible £6m bill. John Morgan reports
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EPSRC rolls out 31 shapes but puts off decisions on the difficult subjects
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has deferred until the end of March more decisions on which areas of mathematics and physical sciences will grow or shrink.
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US for-profit universities 'unworthy of the name'
The poor research record of US for-profit institutions makes them unworthy of the term "university", UK academics have claimed.