AHRC and the Big Society: ‘you use the language policymakers understand’
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has strongly denied that it has been pressurised into funding research on the Conservative Party’s “Big Society” agenda.
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Leeds Met to charge near-maximum fees
Two years ago, Leeds Metropolitan University was the only higher education institution in England offering a substantial discount on tuition fees, charging just £2,000 a year.
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Aboriginal Canadians’ university challenges are still steep
In the 1950s, it was possible to count the number of students from an aboriginal background studying at Canadian universities on the fingers of one hand.Numbers have grown substantially since then,...
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Republican Party demands access to Wisconsin academic’s emails
A branch of the US Republican Party has been accused of attacking academic freedom by using freedom of information laws to access emails sent by a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who...
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Higher education unions and students set to March for the Alternative
Members of higher education unions will take to London’s streets to join a day of protest against government cuts to public services, while students plan to inject some “radical spirit” via a feeder...
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Students’ show of solidarity with national strike action
Occupations are under way at two London universities as students rally in support of lecturers mounting a national strike over pensions, pay and jobs.
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Aston opts for maximum fees
Aston University has become the first institution from outside the 1994 and Russell groups to announce plans to charge tuition fees of £9,000 in 2012.
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The Turbulent World of Franz Göll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century
Ulrike Zitzlsperger on the diaries of an 'average' man who played witness to the tumult of history
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When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me? Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life
A whimsical tale fails to convey the power of a great thinker's insights, writes Biancamaria Fontana
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Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
Throughout these pages I have sought to write tendentiously," declares Gregory Sholette unwisely, "producing, I hope, a committed work that never disengages from its critical core." Tendentious to...
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The Public Value of the Humanities
This book provides a top-notch tutorial on the current states of humanities research in the UK. The Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate, has imaginatively arranged 24 essays commissioned by the Arts...
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Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire
Tom Palaima appreciates a depiction of the nature of exploitation under Roman imperial rule
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Higher Education and the Public Good: Imagining the University
This is a book on the philosophy of higher education in the tradition of Aristotle. Its refreshing message is that higher education, properly conceived, reflects the relatedness of human beings, and...
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Darwin's Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong
Let me start by conceding the central, most controversial thesis argued in this book: that neo-creationism and ultra-Darwinism are opposing offshoots of the same modernist root. Both read the Bible...
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Asia-Pacific nations in chemistry, 2000-2010
Asia-Pacific nations in chemistry, 2000-2010Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 2000-31 December 2010A-P rankWorld rankNations Papers Citations Citations...