Antarctic merger is frozen out
Survey stays intact after politicians and scientists put proposal on ice. Paul Jump writes
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From where I sit - No time to lose on Korea moves
When it comes to higher education in the Republic of Korea, most of us would find it hard to answer key questions. What do you think about their university research priorities? Who would you partner...
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Leader: Bull or bear, they will fight it
The Council for the Defence of British Universities aims to repel the market forces that it says threaten the academy's values
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Research intelligence - Gender bias hides, even in open minds
Sector wakes up to discriminatory effects of unconscious prejudice. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
鈥 Among the smaller but still significant casualties of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the East Coast of the US last month, were thousands of laboratory rodents drowned in the basement rooms of a...
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Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
This tale of friends, lovers and fighters for political change has epic sweep, says Robin Feuer Miller
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Depression: A Public Feeling
Sally Munt on a critical guide to the economic system鈥檚 baleful effects on the individual mind
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Fit: An Architect's Manifesto
Fit is Robert Geddes鈥 attempt to distil a lifetime of learning during a distinguished architectural career into one slim volume. It evolved in response to sociologist Nathan Glazer鈥檚 critique of...
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Planet without Apes
The non-human great apes - our closest living relatives - are on the edge of extinction. Planet without Apes highlights the myriad threats facing the estimated 300,000 to 400,000 remaining chimpanzee...
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Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress
A close-focus study of Arab schooling calls Western views into question, writes Carine Allaf
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When Pigs Could Fly and Bears Could Dance: A History of the Soviet Circus
The Russian Revolution that launched the world鈥檚 first self-proclaimed communist state - the Soviet Union - was billed as a great leap out of the benighted past into a radiant future. The second...
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Governing the World: The History of an Idea
Mark Mazower鈥檚 stimulating work analyses how the world was governed (or at least how attempts were made to govern it) in the periods following three 鈥渟ettlements鈥. First came the Concert of Europe,...
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Odds and quads
Launched during the First World War, Ladybird created probably the UK's most iconic - and now most nostalgic - series of 20th-century children's books.
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Appointments
University of EdinburghJulie TaylorThe head of strategy and development at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has taken up a new post at the University of Edinburgh. Julie...