Freedom a 'former value' in admin-led sector
Growing levels of performance management are threatening to destroy collegiate relationships between academics and administrators, a study has claimed.Burgeoning administration has already led to...
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Get out of your silos and muck in
Humanities and social sciences must cultivate new fields to win Euro cash. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Austerity’s reign in Spain may drive its researchers to greener pastures
Elite league's v-cs say Madrid's 25% cut to science will cause long-term harm. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Fundamental elements
The STFC's achievements offer a template for extracting the full value from UK research, suggests Keith Mason
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With the managers in charge, autonomy isn't what it used to be
The market, not academic freedom, is what our leaders have in mind when they seek to resist political interference, John Holmwood argues
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Politics Without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
This provocative text may be just what isolated political theory needs, argues Matthew Flinde
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The Baker Who Pretended to be King of Portugal
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is stirred by the tale of a pastry chef who laid claim to an Iberian throne
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Domesticating the Airwaves: Broadcasting, Femininity and Domesticity
This book sets out to retell the history of the intimate relationship between broadcasting and domesticity. Set against a backdrop of changing social relations from the 1930s to the present day, it...
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Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
Let's be honest. It's hard to get excited about car parks. That probably accounts for the paucity of serious studies about them. To make matters worse, car parks - known in the US as parking lots -...
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Ripping yarns
Like it or not, impact is a fact of research life. Paul Manners suggests that many scholars do like it, and with good reason: portraying the dialectic between academic work and the wider world is...
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Salford plan to axe Italian gets tongue-lashing
Students and academics have condemned the University of Salford’s plans to shut down its Italian department, warning of damage to British graduate skills in a globalised economy.
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Abertay appoints new principal
The University of Abertay Dundee has appointed a new vice-chancellor and principal almost a year after the previous head of the institution left amid a row over his retirement.
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Campus Review: Redundancies reduced at Sydney
By Jennifer Bennett for Campus Review
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Thinktank attacks 'perverse incentive' on overseas students
Including students in net migration statistics creates a “perverse incentive” for the government to drive down foreign student numbers even though this does relatively little to cut long-term...
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Inside Higher Ed: Playing Politics With Poli Sci
By Doug Lederman for Inside Higher Ed