News in brief - 4 September 2014
ParticipationRates to reboundHigher education participation rates look set to bounce back this year after falling significantly in 2012-13 when £9,000 tuition fees were introduced, a new report says...
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Salaries by academic rank
About 10 per cent of university professors in England earn more than £100,000 a year, according to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Such sums are usually earned by senior university...
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Opening of private medical school delayed after GMC raises concerns
Uclan will recruit senior staff and secure student placement before course begins in September 2015
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Soas fractionals reject final offer of improved terms
Staff claim revised terms fail to address their concerns over hours spent on preparation and marking
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Battle scars: Did Achilles suffer from PTSD?
A historian mulls modern and ancient soldiers’ susceptibility to PTSD
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Campus close-up: University of Hertfordshire
An oral history project seeks to collect the memories of the ‘Ten Pound Poms’ and those they left behind
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Lifts: social spaces worthy of academic study
A new history of the elevator prompts Sally Feldman to consider life’s ups and downs
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North of one, south of the other
Identity in the English-Scottish border region is a fluid concept that cannot be defined by nationality, says Ysanne Holt
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Liz Gloyn, Dennis Hayes, Ali Hutchinson, Stephen Wade and Joanna Williams...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities, by James Turner
Geoffrey Galt Harpham on a timely reminder of the common root of modern human sciences
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Epimethean Imaginings: Philosophical and Other Meditations on Everyday Light, by Raymond Tallis
Jane O’Grady on a celebration of the importance of philosophy in the science of our everyday lives
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The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier, by Hassan Abbas
Christina Hellmich on an examination of the enduring nature of the Taliban
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Japan: The Paradox of Harmony, by Keiko Hirata and Mark Warschauer
Joy Hendry hopes for insights that look beyond stereotypes in this study of a nation in flux
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Failing to Protect: The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights, by Rosa Freedman
Conor Gearty on why the United Nations is successful at developing and promoting human rights but fails in protecting them
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Indispensable and Other Myths: Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It, by Michael B. Dorff
Cary Cooper on a rebuttal of the idea that performance-related pay for business leaders improves corporate performance