The White Man's World (Memories of Empire)
Joanna Lewis admires an exploration of attitudes to colonialism and immigration in a crumbling empire
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Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood
Demonstrations and riots have spawned much speculation about young people in the UK. Who are they? What do they want? How do they think, and are protesters representative of their generation?...
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The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age
Jerusalem, Montreal, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin, Paris, New York, Oxford...Oxford? Looking at this line-up of major international cities, Oxford strikes immediately as a very odd choice....
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The Necessity of Errors
Mistakes and misunderstandings often serve to further human knowledge, finds Alex Danchev
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Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary
When viewed against an event that propelled the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s back into media circulation, Vampire Nation possesses a certain currency. The May 2011 arrest of the Serbian former military...
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Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture
The negotiation of the Blitz is still a permanent fixture of British post-war culture at the beginning of a new century. As the living record of eyewitnesses diminishes each year, the place of the...
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Racial antidote to apartheid poison has unwanted side effects
South African institution's positive-discrimination policy stirs up fresh debate. Dan Newling reports
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: David J. Gower• Institution: Natural History Museum• Value: £194,949Insights from snakes into vertebrate visual evolution• Award...
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Tell them how they're doing - before, during and after
Tutors urged to improve assessment and feedback to help students adjust. Sam Creighton writes
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The unintended consequences of policies that disregard implications
The British Sociological Association's next head tells Matthew Reisz about his plans and priorities
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Study hard for smooth transition to job market
It may no longer be true - if it ever was - that obtaining a degree will guarantee you a job, but being "academically engaged" may mean that students have a smaller chance of being unemployed, in...
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News in brief
United StatesFire report points finger at UCLAA report into a 2008 laboratory fire that killed a 23-year-old research assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles is far more critical of...
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A frustrated Obama is still hoping to enact change
With Dream Act faltering, president links federal aid to 'responsible' fees. Sarah Cunnane writes
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Rise aims to shine more brightly on African sector
A project that funds African academics whose careers are "stuck" because they lack the time or money for postgraduate study is asking the World Bank to help it grow tenfold.
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Warwick and Monash team up for global strategy
The two universities aim to offer global market 'best of both worlds'. John Morgan reports