Inside Higher Ed: Transgender athletes, college teams
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Scientists must be liberated from the idea that they are ājust cogs in an economic machineā, the Conservative Party conference has heard.
Degree-course fees are likely to escalate rapidly and could reach as much as five times the current sum if the existing cap is lifted, an education charity has warned.
Defining institutional mission is the cornerstone of a successful development, Matthew Reisz hears
The University of Gloucestershire has lost a tribunal case brought by a manager who claimed she was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the state of the institutionās finances.
The president of the University of Chicago has defended the notion of a wide-ranging university education that cultivates the āhabit of mind to integrate ideasā, in the face of employersā demands for...
England could become the most expensive country in the world in which to study at a public university in light of Lord Browne of Madingleyās review of fees and funding, the main lecturersā union has...

A cutting critique of the sexism of neuroscience - the phrenology du jour - made Hilary Rose chuckle in agreement

Simon Mitton seeks a more philosophical view of the state of knowledge in theoretical physics

Few people talk straight when it comes to sex - even otherwise very straight people tend to become coy, facetious, sanctimonious or simply silent. This book examines the role played by Greece and...
"Problem-posing education is revolutionary futurity. Hence it is prophetic (and, as such, hopeful)." So wrote Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968), one of the 20th...

A detailed and informed social critique of Christianity in the US today fascinates Keith Ward

A biographer of Clement Attlee faces the problem that his subject may, as Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds concedes, have had "no significant personality at all". Most contemporaries seem to have agreed that...
The back cover of Mark Lawrence Schrad's book describes it as a tour de force. Drawing on research in three different languages (Russian, Swedish and English), with 65 pages of footnotes, it merits...

The UK could learn lessons from a fascinating history of California's universities, finds Alan Ryan