Knowledge is power
The Confederation of British Industry press release embargoed until 23 June ("The week in higher education", 26 June) came as a surprise to many of us since director-general Richard Lambert was...
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No NSS flag-waving here
National Union of Students president Wes Streeting (Letters, 26 June) fails to engage with Lee Harvey's criticisms of the National Student Survey ("Jumping through hoops on a white elephant", 12 June...
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Green shoots
Galvanised by last year's inaugural league table, universities across the UK have been busily redrafting environment policies and cutting energy consumption - but there's still a long way to go....
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The state of the union
The shrinking pool of potential students is putting new pressures on US universities. But if some are learning to adapt, others seem to have a 'nascent death wish'. Jon Marcus reports
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3 July 2008
Going green - How eco-friendly is your university?
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To boldly go… in well-trodden footsteps
Yet another meeting, yet another report that fails to break new ground. Gloria Monday fights boredom by totting up the number of legs in the room
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Home and far away
Tara Brabazon on the soundtrack to life on a continent’s edge
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Open doors and grand traditions
Yongnian Zheng on the role of China's ancient ethical system in an age of growth and reform
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Franco and Hitler, Spain, Germany, and World War II
The author of this book is a distinguished US historian who greatly influenced students of my generation during the Franco dictatorship. This relatively short work, appropriately and kindly dedicated...
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In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism
I am going to try but I am not quite sure of this. I don't think I know how to write without being intimate, without exposing myself and my real feelings about what is going on around me and I am not...
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Book of the week: Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Tom Turner on the cultivated intellect
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The week in books
Night's Black Agents by Daniel Ogden, professor of ancient history, University of Exeter. Continuum, £25.00, ISBN 9781847252302"The real disappointment of this book is less its faint whiff of the...
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Where X does not equal Y
Helen Haste reflects on neuroscience's latest insights about the male and female of our species
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Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a
In a volume that the author considers the culmination of his life's work and the final statement he wishes to make on issues he has been struggling with for nearly half a century, Abdullahi Ahmed An-...
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Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future
As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1961, Newton N. Minow famously remarked that American television was a "vast wasteland". Currently vice-chairman of the Commission on...