THE podcast: 28 March 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanVice-chancellor pay, Sir Alan Langlands’ decision to leave Hefce, and an overview of our latest books section all feature on this Times Higher Education issue review....
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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki
Shahidha Bari considers an exploration of desire and denial amid Egypt’s shifting sands
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Vagina dialogue and bodies in evidence
Chester tackles bodily totems and taboos. Matthew Reisz reports
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Open Access confusion
Open-access terminology needs to be employed accurately, argues Cameron Neylon
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David Nutt on pharma brain drain
Without a shot in the arm for commercial drug development, our science base will suffer, argues David Nutt
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Grant winners
The Wellcome TrustInvestigators in Medical HumanitiesThese awards range from about £500,000 to just over £1 million for up to five yearsAward winner: Steven SturdyInstitution: University of...
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Leader - V-cs, please give generously
When pension pots are full, generosity would fit the zeitgeist better than salary top-ups
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The week in higher education
Anyone familiar with the views of Edzard Ernst may be surprised to learn that he was on the board of the journal Homeopathy. But this cognitive dissonance was ended last week when the journal sacked...
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Professorial pay rises: is the REF factor at play?
REF factor may explain growing salary differential shown by Hesa data. Jack Grove reports
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Situation vacant
There are concerns that leading England’s funding council is a diminished job after suggestions that Sir Alan Langlands may be leaving the role because of its shrinking importance under the new fees...
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Odds and quads
These are just two of the plant samples, now held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, that Carl Peter Thunberg brought back from his pioneering expedition to Japan in 1775.
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Campus round-up
Shrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of East Anglia, the grassland...
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Sex and Arab sensibility
Shahidha Bari considers an exploration of desire and denial amid Egypt’s shifting sands
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Debased intellectual currency
Joanna Williams commends a rigorous analysis of the impact of funding changes on the sector
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American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
In May 1918, in Brooks County, Georgia, Hayes Turner, a black farm labourer, was lynched by a white mob seeking vengeance for the death of Hampton Smith, a white farmer and racist. The fact that...