Cut student support and raise fees to preserve quality, says CBI
Task force’s call for ‘uncomfortable’ choices is condemned by the NUS and the UCU. Hannah Fearn reports
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It’s the stupidity, stupid
A course on ‘the most powerful determinant of human destiny’ strikes a nerve with the American media. Jon Marcus reports
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Standards chief criticises MPs over ‘complacency’ claims
But IUSS member replies that attacks on the Students and Universities report are ‘spurious nonsense’. Hannah Fearn reports
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Shock horrors or sound science?
After defending science reporting against Goldacre’s ‘unremitting focus’ on missteps, Drayson promises to look into tales of misrepresentation. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What is Migration History?
Author: Christiane Harzi and Dirk Hoerder with Donna GabacciaEdition: FirstPublisher: Polity PressPages: 181Price: £55.00 and £13.99ISBN: 9780745643366This short book aims to provide a comprehensive...
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The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking after the First World War, 1919-1923
Author Alan SharpEdition SecondPages 282Publisher Palgrave MacmillanPrice £55.00 and £19.99ISBN 9780333800768 and 800775Alan Sharp’s book has established itself as an indispensable study of the...
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Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007
Author: Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian LambkinEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 403Price: £18.99ISBN: 9780230222564The authors try to encapsulate an immense literature on emigration,...
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Book of the week: On Art and War and Terror
An interdisciplinary tour of conflict in all its shades and guises grips Robert Eaglestone
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- Citizenship: A Reality Far from IdealEdited by Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development, Cranfield University, Nada Kakabadse, visiting professor...
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The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603
Lucy Wooding admires an assured interweaving of Scottish and English history in the 16th century
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The Least Worst Place: How Guantánamo Became the World’s Most Notorious Prison
So how did Guantanamo become “the world’s most notorious prison”? Principally as a result of a Washington-created public-relations own goal. On 11 January 2002, the first group of 20 prisoners...
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The Canon: The Twenty Years’ Crisis: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. By E. H. Carr
The bibliographies in today’s international relations texts rarely include anything published before about 1990, but there is one work still regularly listed and discussed that appeared as long ago...
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Sex, drugs and stats
Matthew Reisz meets reluctant Facebook darling Andy Field, the Harry Potter of the social sciences
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Schools say mea culpa as they cash in on MBAs
Applications rise as institutions vow to play their part in resolving the crisis. Hannah Fearn reports
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Grant winners
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe third phase of the National Prevention Research Initiative.Award winner: A. AndersonInstitution: University of DundeeValue: £1,167,436Bewel: the impact of a body weight...