LSE cuts ties with Libyan state
The London School of Economics has severed links with the Libyan authorities following violence against anti-government protesters that has led to more than 200 deaths.
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NUS president to stand down
The president of the National Union of Students has announced that he is to stand down.
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Knowledge pool: UK-Iraqi collaborations jump in at the deep end
Anyone trying to create a scholarly centre for gender and violence studies in Iraq is unlikely to have an easy time of it. It is an environment, acknowledged Nazand Begikhani, senior research Fellow...
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Visa plans are a 鈥榟ostile act against universities鈥
Government plans to overhaul the immigration system and drastically reduce the number of visas issued amount to a 鈥渉ostile act against Britain鈥檚 universities鈥 and contain elements that have an 鈥渦gly...
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Attack of the clones: plagiarism by university applicants soars
The number of pupils plagiarising personal statements in their university application forms increased by one-third last year, it has been revealed.
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Informed opinion the key to matters of reputation
It is an eye-wateringly powerful critique. The influential journalist Malcolm Gladwell, writing in the current edition of The New Yorker, shines a harsh light on the US鈥 national college rankings.The...
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The Evolution of the Human Head
Chris McManus is impressed by a multidisciplined tour de force that simply oozes scholarship
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Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
Duncan Wu is gripped by a tale of a remarkable family's careful crafting of its public standing
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Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
This book is intended for a popular audience. It is low on technical detail, rhetorically selective in its presentation of research findings and light-hearted in tone: but none of this should deter...
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The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
The past few decades have seen the rise of "whiteness" studies, which explore the cultural construction of white power. The studies demonstrate how anti-African-American hostility was constituted as...
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As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers are Transforming Everything
The People's Republic is buying into Western consumerism. Kerry Brown counts the costs
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The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy and Reputation
This volume dangles the lure of much enjoyable moral indignation. Readers are promised "example after example of harassment" and "vile and hateful speech", after which they will "never again see the...
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Montaigne and the Art of Free-thinking
It is perhaps unsurprising that a major literary classic written in the late 16th century should prove if not inaccessible, at least difficult to approach for the modern reader. The paradox, in the...
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Polyglots plot as Glasgow letter screams foul over axe
Academics close ranks to defend beleaguered foreign language study. Matthew Reisz reports
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Gifts that just stop giving? Donation fears when matched funding ends
Conference hears that scheme's imminent demise could arrest momentum. Hannah Fearn reports