Teachers must be a class apart
Conservatives plan to make teaching a ‘brazenly elitist’ profession. Melanie Newman
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Cut ‘failed’ ex-poly humanities departments, says peer
Opinions divided in Lords debate on higher education budget cuts. Melanie Newman reports
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Nutt unveils independent alternative on drugs
Fourteen-strong committee to provide non-political scientific advice, ousted professor says. Zoë Corbyn reports
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We ‘just don’t like them’ is adequate reason to dismiss advisers, claims shadow science minister
At a science debate Adam Afriyie argued that governments were entitled to sack academic experts on any terms at all. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Firsts rise again
Percentage of students with top honours increases by 1 per centage point, Hesa statistics show. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education
Rick Trainor discovers a critique of relevance on both sides of the pond
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The Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain
Jerome de Groot finds television's depiction of the First World War is put into clear focus
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The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society
The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual - its authors call it a pamphlet - may well come to be regarded as the most important work to emerge from America's social sciences so far this millennium. It was...
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The Canon: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. By Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann (1921-80) was a Lutheran of Jewish descent who converted to Judaism. Fleeing Nazi Germany for America, he became professor of philosophy at Princeton University after active service...
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The Tunguska Mystery
Alan Gilmore is doubtful of a study that ignores credible science and focuses on the unknown
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Gangs, Marginalised Youth and Social Capital
In the early 1970s, a sociologist using the pseudonym James Patrick published a book that he researched by going undercover in Glasgow's tough inner-city housing schemes and participating in the...
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Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
Musicologists, as well as opera buffs, will welcome this well-documented and thoughtfully written study on a relatively rare topic: namely, the practice and performance of insertion arias in operatic...
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Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion
A confused attempt to explain the unspeakable falls back on the usual suspects, writes Fred Inglis
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The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
A.W. Purdue feels this Tory analysis may underestimate the fluidity of the electorate
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Wittgenstein and Political Theory: The View from Somewhere
Ludwig Wittgenstein was unarguably one of the most compelling and applicable thinkers across so many disciplines. Here, Christopher Robinson, assistant professor of humanities and social sciences at...