Lib Dem leaders urged to rethink White Paper
Hughes issues plea to win back students' trust as party conference aims to overcome its 'sense of bereavement' over tuition fees. Simon Baker reports from Birmingham
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Amend AAB proposal to keep STEM strong, 1994 Group tells ministers
The grade threshold at which student places are removed from the recruitment cap and thrown open to full competition should be lowered from AAB to ABB at A level, a mission group has argued.
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Battle for control of pensions looms
Fury as chair suggests employers could question UCU's involvement in the USS. John Morgan writes
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Wake-up call for Europe to quicken Spring awakening
Jack Grove reports from Copenhagen on the Arab yearning for academic partnership and cooperation
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Emerging properties: ignore the Anglo-Saxons and try the developing angle
Universities in Europe have been advised by a World Bank official to look to developing countries for inspiration rather than copying British and US models of higher education.
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You can't have it, it's private
Scholars decry institutions' refusal to release data and desire for good news stories. Jack Grove writes
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Sighs on the prize
Anachronistic academic awards for students can pose headaches for long-suffering staff, writes Adrian Furnham
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All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities
Flora Samuel welcomes an exuberant attack on a sphere dominated by greed and lack of vision
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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
Howard Davies admires the aims of a defender of government but questions his certainties
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Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life
Puppets are creepy. It tells you something that they are at the heart of Freud's brilliant and occasionally absurd reflections about the feeling of the uncanny, in his reading of the automaton...
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The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment
I had so much to do last weekend. Apart from the usual domestic chores, there was my next book to work on, a conference paper to complete, and new lectures to think about. And there was this review...
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Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
Les Gofton is intrigued by the memoir of a scholar who finds modern life deeply disappointing
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The Puzzle of Left-handedness
The "puzzle" here, according to Rik Smits, is that while left-handedness is an enduring characteristic of humans, it has long been seen as an aberration, linked to all sorts of negativity and widely...
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To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora
With this book, Tom Devine, Scotland's best-known historian, completes a trilogy of surveys of Scotland at home and abroad. The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999) examined the rise of modern Scotland...
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The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal about Human Nature
Another narrow Darwinian conception of economic behaviour tries Isabelle Szmigin's patience