Reputation at risk over student vote, UCL warns
The University College London students' union is pressing ahead with a motion of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant, despite being warned by the university that the move could have a "...
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Scholars bear brunt of cash-saving plans
Job losses expected across all faculties as London Metropolitan bids to save £7m. Jack Grove writes
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Helium shortage not a gas as labs postpone 'optimal' work on grey matter
Brain-scanning equipment has been shut down and research projects have stalled at laboratories across the country because of a global helium shortage.
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Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously about the Planet
Christopher Belshaw considers some right-leaning directions on how to save the environment
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The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy
Vanessa Williamson extols a clarion call for US citizens to press for more accountable governance
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Anti-Nietzsche
Malcolm Bull's latest work is not a book about Nietzsche but one with Nietzsche; if it had had a subtitle, "Nietzschean Variations" might have been a good choice. For this is exactly what the book...
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Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
To most people outside Germany, that country's long-lasting division after 1945 has been seen as a series of dramatic crises, essentially concerned with the divided and encircled city of Berlin....
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Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
Japanese notions of mental health differ from ours but everyone suffers in recession, finds David Healy
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British Comics: A Cultural History
Most of us with fond memories of what we read as children or young adolescents will feel some trepidation as the comic becomes the object of academic study, and be aghast at the prospect of Korky the...
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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World
Philippe van Parijs' book treats a subject that is largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Native speakers of English tend to accept the phenomenon of English as a global lingua franca (ELF...
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Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
In turning away as cattle are killed for our tables, we condemn animals to suffer, says Temple Grandin
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Farewell, obscure objects of desire
Open access may sound death knell for costly, little-read monographs. Matthew Reisz reports
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I'm here all week, ba-dum-tish! (Is this thing still on?)
Scholars should go easy on the jokes as a bad crack can cause all sorts of problems. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
Degree appealStill doctor no as court backs OIAA medical student who twice failed his final-year examinations has lost a legal battle over the decision not to award him a degree. Amandip Sandhar, a...
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Burns notice on for-profit plans
NUS president tells Jack Grove that taxpayers will baulk at paying shareholders for ill-judged reforms