So How’s the Family? and Other Essays, by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Stina Lyon on the personal and emotional costs of a global marketplace where everything’s for sale
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Campus round-up
Shrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of East Anglia, the grassland...
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Campus round-up - 28 March 2013
Source: Dominic StaffordShrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of...
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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
Vernon Bogdanor doffs his cap to a monument of objective, disinterested historical scholarship
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We're going to need a bigger net
The 100 Under 50 helps to correct the bias towards traditional universities manifest in most rankings and gives a sense of the deeper intellectual resources being tapped by new ones, argues Peter...
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Shrew observations
Tragedy, comedy, genial farce? The challenge of how to present Katherina’s submission has left its mark on three recent Shrews at the Globe, and thereby hangs a tale, Liz Schafer observes
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The Taming of the Shrew: tragedy, comedy or farce?
Three recent productions at Shakespeare’s Globe highlight to the challenge of how to present Katherina’s submission
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The week in higher education
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China’s Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
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28 March - 3 April 2013 - The week in higher education
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China’s Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
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Central Asia to launch first course in mountain studies
The world's first university devoted to mountain studies is to be set up in one of Central Asia's most remote and rugged regions to focus international academic attention on mountain cultures,...
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Mooc providers expand
Two of the leading US massive open online course providers have each almost doubled the number of universities offering courses on their online platforms.
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Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks by Jenny White
Clémence Scalbert-Yucel on a worthy addition to the study of a state in flux
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The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
Robert A. Segal on a comprehensive study of the growth of the world’s biggest religion
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Joseph DiasInstitution: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustValue: £2,284,684Scaphoid waist internal...
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World Reputation Rankings 2013 methodology
 Poll position: experts think these are the best in the business The excellent response to the third round of the annual Academic Reputation Survey gives an even more accurate picture of scholarly...