Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds, by Simon Palfrey
Peter J. Smith is left bewildered by an ambitious attempt to identify the units that make up Shakespeare’s plays
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Class Warfare: Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools, by Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone and Heather Jenkins
Social dynamics that affect elite US students are indicative of a broader trend, finds Julie J. Park
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Australia ‘caught out’ by cost of lifting student number cap
England urged to learn lessons from country’s experience of steep rise in undergraduates after relaxation of controls
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Oxford v-c Andrew Hamilton says sexism is ‘unconscious’ but real
V-c speaks on marketing research, ethics, gender bias at Universia International Presidents’ Meeting 2014 in Rio de Janeiro
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Graduate migration to cities displaces less well-educated
The urban dreams of those with degrees are driving up prices in US metropolitan hubs and driving out those with no tertiary education
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Scholars’ disbelief after Czech ministry axes project
Anger as funding for scientific researchers fails to materialise
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Wellcome and Jisc take 19th-century medical archives online
University libraries join project to extend UK Medical Heritage Library online resource
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The World Cup is not enough
Latin America’s giant wants to be a player in more than football, and universities worldwide are keen to help it achieve its goal
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European economists ‘swap sex for promotion’
Survey of 400 academics reveals almost all admit involvement in at least one unacceptable research practice
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Poppleton rises to ‘challenge of irony’
Our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has warmly welcomed the latest addition to our ever-expanding management team.Targett said that the decision to appoint Dr Kevin Flimnap as head of...
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Wakolda, directed by LucÃa Puenzo
Disquiet grows into horror as an infamous Nazi doctor takes an unhealthy interest in a young girl in Argentina, finds Philip Kemp
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Can Labour deliver on fees?
The opposition must give universities guarantees about funding if it wants to gain support, argues Bill Rammell
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The future was forged in Buckingham
In exercising its autonomy, the UK’s first fully private university has blazed a trail that the rest have followed, asserts Terence Kealey
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Apartheid, 1948-1994, by Saul Dubow
Alexander du Toit lauds a detailed account of a bizarre 20th-century political experiment
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Good science requires better teaching
We must change the way we educate students to counter rising scientific misconduct, say Tim Birkhead and Bob Montgomerie