False friends with deep pockets
A web portal has just been launched in Germany with the aim of monitoring the impact of industry funding on the academy. The site is called Hochschulwatch.de. In linguistic terms, Hochschule is a so-...
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Get them to give generously
Malcolm Gillies on how to encourage alumni donations
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Liberace: an affair to remember
The high camp of Behind the Candelabra conceals an old-fashioned love story, Duncan Wu writes
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The Democracy Project by David Graeber
Rationality yields to sentimentality in an Occupy Wall Street-inspired call for direct action, Fred Inglis finds
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Among Murderers: Life after Prison by Sabine Heinlein
Laura Piacentini ponders the power of the penal system to destroy a prisoner’s sense of self
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Higher Education in the Digital Age by William G. Bowen
Miriam E. David considers a commentary on the preservation of pedagogy in the face of technological advances
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Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine by Wendy Cadge
Pamela Klassen measures hospitals’ sacred dimensions
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Divided Nations: Why Global Governance is Failing, and What We Can Do About It by Ian Goldin
Dries Lesage on a wake-up call for 21st-century bodies no longer fit for purpose
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson
Jon Turney on the generator of the AC power grid
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Most NSP cash goes to fee waiver ‘con trick’
Only £21m of £130.5m scheme reaching student pockets, Hefce finds
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PM sticks to populist numbers
Boris Johnson and Vince Cable both see the harm being done by the hard line on immigration, but Cameron is unlikely to budge
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Cable: ‘In a rational world we’d be increasing funding’
Business secretary will argue against sector cuts and for extra investment
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Boris Johnson says London can lead the way on world stage
Mayor confident in capital’s academic brand values
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Immigration is a positive, not a negative
The academy must repel UKIP’s charges, argues Christopher Phelps
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Ghana’s higher education sector seeks coherent national policies
Conference hears of funding problems, graduate unemployment and mission creep