Be here now, or else: lamentable effects of student 'presenteeism'
Forcing undergraduates to attend class retards their capacity to develop as mature, independent learners, warns Bruce Macfarlane
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Hang the expenses
In this age of austerity, delaying reimbursements owed to external examiners is inexcusable, opines Iain Stevenson
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Great big classes: 'we love 'em' - official
Our Deputy Head of Student Experience, Nancy Harbinger, has described research on student-to-staff ratios by Stephen Court as "dangerously misleading".Mr Court, a senior research officer at the...
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
The story behind the writing of a literary tour de force is illuminating, finds Tessa Hadley
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Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
BDSM (the compound acronym denoting the practices of bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism) seems to be everywhere these days. The unprecedented and unlikely...
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Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
This is a wonderful book that has all the strengths and weaknesses of the US scholarship on which it is based. In such a cultural space, religion is perceived as an asset, a positive resource,...
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Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis
No excuses, says Yvonne Sherratt: the Fuhrer’s enormities cannot be blamed on insanity
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The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin have produced an ambitious account of the nature of global capitalism, looking at its historical origins in order to argue that the US state has been the main driver of the...
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Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
Social science research has much in common with detective investigations: a search for unexpected connections and the crucial finding that will explain all. Once found, the solution seems obvious and...
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Odds and quads
These are the original designs for the dioramas created for London's Commonwealth Institute by one of the UK's leading post-war designers, James Gardner (1907-95).
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Appointments
City University LondonCarl StychinThe new dean of City University London's law school said the job had become "more and more attractive" as he became convinced of the contribution it could make to...
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It should be the making of us
Rejecting dire warnings that increasing competition in higher education will end in disaster, Paul Ramsden argues that the opposite could be true, but only if the sector is allowed to take charge of...
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Top 10 in research Down Under are world-beaters
Ten Australian universities are performing “above the world standard” for research, including four performing “well above” world standard, according to an evaluation of Australian research.
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Managers are extending reach into research
A managerial culture is growing in universities as they “position themselves to align more systematically with government and industrial sectors”, a conference has heard.