A closed book to outsiders
Japan and South Korea want their universities to attract overseas academic talent, but doubts persist about their readiness for the global market. Michael Fitzpatrick reports
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2009
The UK's higher education institutions manage annual budgets worth billions of pounds and employ thousands of people. But the remarkable business and management skills of those running universities...
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Baying mobs and other inventions
A work exploding the myths surrounding so-called race riots wins David Gadd's enthusiastic approval
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What Happened at Vatican II
The Second Vatican Council was convened by Pope John XXIII and ended during the papacy of Paul VI. In four annual sessions between 1962 and 1965, it assembled some 2,200 Roman Catholic bishops from...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC2
1. Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision-Making by Gerd Gigerenzer, Allen Lane, £8.99. ISBN 97801410159102. Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice. Revised 2008 by the Department of Health,...
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Book of the week: Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective
An exploration of the model world impresses Steven French
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The week in books
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch professor of history and William Ziegler professor of business administration, Harvard University, senior...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe: An Interdisciplinary ViewEdited by Cordula van Wyhe, lecturer in the history of art, University of York. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN...
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From where I sit - Negative on affirmative action
Divisions over positive discrimination, which has long been a bone of contention in Indian higher education, were again highlighted by a recent petition that questioned the expulsion of 12 students...
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'We're not hiding anyone' - official
"We absolutely deny any suggestion of concealment." That was the bold assertion by Brian Bryan, our Deputy Head of RAE Strategy, when confronted last week with the news that 74 academic staff had...
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Spreading corps values
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on Teach for America's force for educational good
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Off Piste: Property magnet
Moving house is the perfect way to begin a new chapter of your life, says Mary Warnock, even if those around you think you're mad
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Leader: Why should Whitehall be no-go zone?
As in the US, UK academe can offer much to the Government. But both sides must first overcome their mutual mistrust
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Caroline Thomas, 1959-2008
Caroline Thomas, a leading authority on the global politics of development - and a former deputy vice-chancellor (education) at the University of Southampton - has died after a long illness.Professor...
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Universities have vital role in CAM research 1
So where are all the "critically thinking", "research-minded" graduates from 40 complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) degrees offered by UK universities ("Unwelcome complements", 30 October)?...