Presidential candidates shift towards the middle ground
Romney's and Obama's positions on education converge as election nears. Jon Marcus writes
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The week in higher education
• While the furore over Jimmy Savile continues to rage at the BBC, The Guardian's Hugh Muir questioned why St Mary's University College, Twickenham has "not seen fit" to remove the priest Laurence...
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Leader: Universal lesson to be learned
In the high fees era, debates about teaching qualifications will be just as pointed in the lecture hall as in the classroom
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From Where I Sit - Bologna tasters enter US menus
"What do US higher education people think about the Bologna Process?" a university rector asked me at last month's Eurasian Higher Education Leaders' Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan. Resisting the urge...
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Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
It’s not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown
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Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease
Alison Bashford applauds a magisterial study of scarily relevant bioeconomic history
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
A doorstop of a book from Allen Lane can be a daunting prospect. But, having read Anne Applebaum’s prizewinning Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps (2003), I knew that appearances can be deceptive....
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Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party
Since the 2008 election of Democrat Barack Obama, the US’ first black president, a movement known as the Tea Party has emerged within the Republican Party. Here, Lawrence Rosenthal and Christine...
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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
The man-woman pairing displaced other well-established forms of bonding, finds Robert Mills
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Dunluce Castle: History and Archaeology
These are exciting times for Irish archaeology. Investigation into sites, buildings and artefacts surviving from the later medieval and early modern period (c.1200-c.1700) have yielded important new...
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Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain
“What is the use,” asks Alice at the opening of her Adventures in Wonderland, “of a book without pictures or conversations?” If we extend her argument, what could be of more use than a book that...
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Odds and quads
This impressive Orthodox cross, made from intricately carved cypress wood, was used for the benediction of the congregation during the Liturgy and was probably made in the monastic community of Mount...
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Appointments
King's College LondonEvelyn WelchAn award-winning historian has been appointed vice-principal (arts and sciences) at King's College London. Evelyn Welch joins the college from Queen Mary, University...
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Delusions & grandeur
Genius and madness may be two sides of the same coin and both states exhibit ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking. Such unusual thought patterns are key to creativity but can also lead reason astray. Glenn...
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1 November 2012
Go fish - Universities aim to land prize catches for the REF