The spirit of enterprise
As competition intensifies, universities that focus on third-stream income and that revamp the campus experience will be in the strongest position to thrive in the future, believes David Barnes
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Looking for the wow factor
Universities want eye-catching iconic buildings that capture the spirit of academic endeavour, involve the community and aid recruitment. Esther Oxford surveys the results, from glass walls to grass...
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3 April 2008
Are you sitting pretty? - A financial health check of UK universities
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Their ships have sailed
It’s not so much the dropouts who vex Gloria Monday, more the drop-ins who have no business on campus
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Adapting to age-discrimination regulations
Universities must tread carefully in light of new age-discrimination regulations with regard to younger and mature students alike
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Book of the Week: Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others
Alex Danchev on the brutish heart of empire
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The Week in Books
Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity by David Sedley, Laurence professor of ancient philosophy and a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. University of California Press, £17.95, ISBN...
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Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism
Charles Townshend is taken aback by a combative and oddly incurious survey of the enemies within
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A Lesbian History of Britain
Rebecca Jennings's book is a neat overview of published material on lesbian history of the past 30 years. It is not a lone historical study that unearths much original material, being more of a...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC2
1. The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything by Tim Harford. Little, Brown Book Group, £18.99. ISBN 978031605642. Longman Pocket English Dictionary. Longman, £9.40. ISBN...
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French Laughter: Literary Humour From Diderot to Tournier
Christie Davies admires a playful look at the sly, carnal and punning humour of France
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The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
The separation of professions," wrote Adam Ferguson, friend to Adam Smith and the father of sociology, in 1767, "seems to promise improvement of skill, and is actually the cause why the productions...
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Experiments in Ethics
Philosophy in the 20th century conceived of itself as distinct from empirical disciplines. Kwame Anthony Appiah's project is to bring economics, psychology and philosophy back together; to...
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The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Boundaries and Transgressions
Rachel Muers on a work about the vital religious issues played out in women’s relationship to food
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The Excursion by William Wordsworth
I shed tears because I couldn’t praise it as I wanted.” Hazlitt’s sad comment on Wordsworth’s Excursion stands as the epitaph to a great poem that readers have often found hard to like. For...