When the telegraph connected the east and west coasts of the United States, Henry David Thoreau famously asked, what does Boston have to say to San Francisco?  A century and a half later, Jean Gottmann, author of Megalopolis and of other pioneering studies on networked urban regions, asserted that half the phone calls in centre cities were to arrange lunch.  However much our contacts with people in the wider world have multiplied, we can only be in one place at any time.  The volume of information t

Please see the attached press release from the UK Society for Research into Higher Education on a new journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education. The editors are Bruce Macfarlane from the Centre for Higher Education at the University of Southampton and William Locke, from the Centre for Global Higher Education, UCL Institute of Education. There is an international editorial board, and they are seeking papers from all over the world.