We are solemn, but still defiantly multicultural
In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, students at a business school in the city are more committed than ever to defending European values, says Frank Bournois
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THE podcast: 19-25 November 2015 issue review
This week's edition discussed by the Times Higher Education team
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Nurse review: new body could shake up research council funding allocations
Proposed Research UK would have similar powers to a v-c over university faculties
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Has the multi-campus university had its day?
The proposed sale of London Metropolitan University’s Aldgate design school highlights some of the pros and cons of ‘one campus’ higher education institution, says Jack Grove
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Nurse review: create Research UK body to oversee research councils
Merger ‘inappropriate’, but seven councils would be overseen by new chief executive
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The right kind of feminists
June Purvis responds to fellow academics’ criticisms of the film Suffragette
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Richard J. Evans on the case for historical apologies
A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past, by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club, by Eileen Pollack
Cait MacPhee on personal accounts of gender trouble in the sciences
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What are you reading? – 19 November 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, by Thomas W. Laqueur
Book of the week: Brace yourself for unusual keepsakes in a study of our attachment to corpses, says Deborah Lutz
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Brokering peace in Nepal
John Elmes talks to Paul Jackson about the politics scholar’s central role during negotiations between the Nepalese government and Maoist rebels
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David Watson delivers posthumous warning on lifelong learning and ‘Wonga-style’ student loans
Higher education expert who died in February asks in paper what might replace strengths of the polytechnic system
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We can’t run away from rape
A shocking film about the extent of sexual assault at US colleges has just toured UK universities. It is high time we took this problem seriously in Britain, says Nicole Westmarland, while US...
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Imposing admissions targets would be ‘draconian’, ministers told
Higher education Green Paper says director of fair access to higher education could be given power to set entry goals for universities