Enigma variations
David Willetts wants more of them, but how much is really known about the UK's private providers? John Morgan uncovers a melange of institutions in a diverse and diversifying sector unbound by caps...
David Willetts wants more of them, but how much is really known about the UK's private providers? John Morgan uncovers a melange of institutions in a diverse and diversifying sector unbound by caps...
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL- Award winner: Erica CarterInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £25,481Bela Balazs: early film theory in transnational context- Award winner: David...
ART HISTORY- Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIIIBy Tatiana C. String, lecturer in the history of art, University of Bristol. Ashgate, £50.00. ISBN 9780754663058Through in-depth analysis...
ARTS AND DESIGN- Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and ResearchEdited by Steve Garner, senior lecturer in the department of design and innovation, The Open University. Intellect Books, £...
Independent 'citizen scientists' have always existed, says Darrel Ince, and our networked age of fast computing and open access is helping them to flourish - to the greater good of research
? = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGYA Companion to Latin American AnthropologyEdited by Deborah Poole, professor of anthropology, Johns Hopkins University. Blackwell, £95.00. ISBN 9780631234685This...
Harold Innis was a professor at the same institution for decades – but while he remained steadfastly local and empirical, he probed the expansive variables of space and time. Tara Brabazon reveres...
Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of AnorexiaAuthor: Megan WarinEdition: FirstPublisher: Rutgers University PressPages: 280Price: £64.50 and £23.50ISBN 9780813546896 and 6902Warin departs from...
Why are American universities so much better at patenting their work than their European counterparts? Craig Evan Klafter spots a crucial difference in the qualifications of patent lawyers
The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and LawEditors: David Thomas Konig, Paul Finkelman and Christopher Alan BraceyEdition: FirstPublisher: Ohio University PressPages...
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to OceanographyBy Mark Denny, John B. and Jean DeNault professor in marine sciences and biomechanics, Stanford University. Princeton...
University of Edinburgh, Greg WalkerThe Regius chair of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh will be filled by Greg Walker, who was been Masson professor of English at the...
Religion and Politics: Islam and Muslim CivilizationAuthors: Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi RedissiEdition: SecondPublisher: AshgatePages: 354Price: £35.00ISBN 9780754674184Seeking to offer a fresh...
BPP may have been awarded university college status, but the regulatory system will have to be drastically overhauled if for-profit higher education is to thrive in Britain, says Simon Baker
ANTHROPOLOGYPostcolonial DisordersEdited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, professor of social medicine, Harvard University; Sandra Teresa Hyde, associate professor in the departments of anthropology and...