31 December 2013 According to Times Higher Education, its readers have shown particular interest in global stories, including features on the rise of Singaporean universities and on life as an expatriate scholar in Japan, as well as the inaugural THE Global Gender Index, which exposed the inequalities facing women in higher education worldwide. Here, from fifteen to one (excluding stories on the THE World University Rankings), are THE's most-read stories of the year. 15. Branded to death (18 July 2013) 14. Unbridled success: Germany’s fee foes claim victory (23 May 2013) 13. Is there anything new to say about Shakespeare? (26 September 2013)12. Higher education pay survey, 2013 … [Read more...]
Great books 2013
31 December 2013 A selection of “best books” published in 2013 has been compiled by Booktopia for the the online news service The New Daily. One of the most hailed works of fiction in 2013 has been Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Booktopia’s Caroline Baum describes it as a dense, intelligent, complex and dark story about a small jewel of a painting that goes missing from the New York Metropolitan Museum following a bomb attack. Few works of literary fiction will have been anticipated more than this hefty novel by an author already mythologised before she turned thirty thanks to her cult debut The Secret History. It's been more than ten years since her second novel, The Little … [Read more...]