College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
Alan Ryan learns what the liberal-arts ideals of the US academy's founders can teach us today
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The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power
Polly Jones is impressed by a rigorous iconography of one of the age of extremes' greatest tyrants
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Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science
Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, stirred up a storm in 2005 by suggesting that women are under-represented in science owing to "issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly...
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Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat
When scientists attempt to play international politics, it usually ends in tears. The physicist Jo Rotblat, one of the first physicists to work on the Bomb, was one of the few to have bucked the...
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How Economics Shapes Science
James Wilsdon applauds an acute analysis of the mixed influence money has on scientific practice
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Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat
The clue to some of this book's limitations, from a British point of view, is in the name. "We" who worry and "we" who eat are American (and middle class). Many very good books, received with...
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Illustrators must draw outside the lines to fulfil their creative urges
A lecturer in the subject urges his peers to escape the commercial straitjacket. Matthew Reisz writes
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Want to know who may not stay the course?
Service outlining prospective students' likelihood of dropping out worries some, writes David Matthews
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Junior researchers led a merry dance as up to 300 circle each post
As many as 300 academics are chasing each junior research post at top institutions.
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Raising the bars a 'moral' matter
V-c: London Met's large Muslim population makes booze 'culturally sensitive'. David Matthews reports
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AUA to grade its members
Administrators to get status for good 'behaviours' in accreditation scheme. David Matthews writes
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Norse code
Academic study of these runes on the island of Orkney is among the work that is helping to boost the University of the Highlands and Islands' international standing in the field of Viking studies.
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QAA's new riff on student feedback: positive notes or waves of jargon?
Sector experts cool on 'bureaucratic' engagement plans proposed by watchdog. Jack Grove reports
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Capital funds follow places to FE colleges
Some capital funding for universities is being reallocated to further education colleges as a result of the government's core-and-margin system.
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The ifs and buts of a potential takeover
Finance school's vice-principal is keener on a level playing field than private suitors, John Morgan hears