University of Westminster arts school celebrates its famous offspring, but also eyes the future
Institution’s School of Media, Arts and Design is 25 this year. Its current dean takes Times Higher Education through the reasons behind its success
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Rugby World Cup final a reminder of a sport where ‘the past isn’t over’
Leading rugby historian explains why he studies a game ‘vital in creation of a British sense of masculine identity’
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Marking an essay? Big Brother may be watching...
University of Edinburgh developing tools to monitor academics’ performance in areas such as assessment and feedback
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Variation in value of student bursaries ‘exacerbates inequality’
IoE study finds that wealthy students can receive more aid than poor undergraduates, based on university they attend
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Theresa May ‘plans on making universities ensure overseas graduates leave UK’
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ secretary accused of basing policy on ‘bonkers’ figure about students overstaying visas
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London Fog: The Biography, by Christine Corton
Ruth Richardson on the capital city’s great mists and smogs that have inspired, harmed and killed
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The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police, by Frank McDonough
Robert Gellately on the truth behind how the Gestapo operated on a routine basis
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The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of our National Imagination, by Dominic Sandbrook
Fred Inglis on the innumerable shows and figures from 50 years of popular culture
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Is industry funding undermining trust in science?
How valid are fears that financial conflicts of interest are damaging confidence in academic research?
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Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind, by George Makari
Janet Sayers on a study of the emergence of a new way of thinking about our inner world
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A World of É«ºÐÖ±²¥owners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid, by Nancy H. Kwak
Danny Dorling sees how bricks and mortar became part of the arsenal with which the US fought the Cold War
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Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal, by Melinda Baldwin
Helen Bynum lauds an exploration of the moral and social aspects of science through the evolution of a leading publication
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On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics, by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Lara Cook lauds a study of the comrades who kept the Man of Steel company for 30 years
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What are you reading? – 29 October 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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QAA acts on concerns over college provision of Pearson programmes
Fifteen per cent of recommendations issued to further education colleges by watchdog relate to courses leading to the FTSE 100 firm’s qualifications