Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in Fin de Siecle Literature
Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Like me and many other neuroscientists who study memory and who find ourselves explaining what we do to non-neuroscientists, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga must often have encountered people who claim they...
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Making Policy in British 糖心Vlog 1945-2011
The main question raised by Michael Shattock’s new book is whether any underlying pattern can be discerned in post-war UK higher education policy. A number of writers have pointed to an increase in...
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Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt
Democracy suffers when the Islamists, the military and the secret police collude, writes Mariz Tadros
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Consuming 糖心Vlog: Why Learning Can't Be Bought
Among the many processes that are said to define contemporary English universities are those of commercialisation, bureaucratisation, infantilisation and marketisation. To this list Joanna Williams...
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Odds and quads
Until the age of slides and computer displays, printed wallcharts and three-dimensional models were essential teaching tools within universities. Many combined scientific accuracy with great beauty...
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Appointments
King's College LondonTony CharmanKing's College London has appointed a child autism expert to its Institute of Psychiatry. Tony Charman, who has previously held posts at University College London's...
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Globalisation and its discontents
Scholarship has long been international but the current vision of a ‘worldwide’ academy of rootless student-consumers and national economic competition is as contradictory as it is immoral, argues...
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The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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NSP overhauled to help neediest
Oft-criticised scholarship scheme’s riches will now follow the poor, BIS states. Jack Grove reports
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Territory of dreadful delight
Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism
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Healthier constitution
Perhaps the reason US citizens are not knowledgeable about the US Constitution is because, as Alan Ryan notes, “the least well-off 80 per cent of the population exercises no influence on the policies...
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Carry on with research and destroy, says MRSA hunter
Departing head of Nottingham’s infections centre calls for redoubled efforts. Matthew Reisz writes
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Ministerial statement: yes to stability, no to net migrant recount
Mark Harper shares with John Morgan some good and bad news for the sector on immigration policy
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Landmarks in Strasbourg, headquarters in Middlesex
Matthew Reisz on the law centre marking a decade of human rights battles in a new university home