Epic bias
In her interesting take on The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind (21 April), Camilla Power says that I regard the warrior society of the Iron Age as the hominid environment of...
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Writers blocked
We write to express our dismay and bewilderment at the Arts Council's removal of funding from the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE).In recent years, NAWE, as the subject association...
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Lacking resources
While browsing the shortlists for the THE Leadership and Management Awards ("The teams setting the pace in race for leading honours", 14 April), it was heartening to see that the nominations for the...
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Majority of final-years would have baulked at £9K hurdle: survey
Over half of current final-year students would not have gone to university if they had faced tuition fees of £9,000 a year, according to a new study.
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Accommodating disability: one size doesn’t fit all
Back in the summer of 2005, I spent a lot of time travelling back and forth to visit the university I was to join in September. I had already had a good look at the place, and worked out all the...
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Inside Higher Ed: Equal time for ‘traditional values’
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Aquaculture cuts at Stirling net one-day walkout
Lecturers at the University of Stirling are due to strike on 26 April in a dispute over job losses.
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Spin cycle: 11 research-intensives foster over half of spin-outs in past decade
A group of 11 universities has produced more than half of all the spin-off companies to have been launched by higher education institutions in the past 10 years, according to new figures.
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What’s the worst that could happen? AUA mulls post-Browne sector
A nightmarish vision of the worst that the future could hold for English universities was set out at the Association of University Administrators conference at the University of Nottingham this week.
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Border Agency suspends Glasgow Caledonian’s Tier 4 licence
Glasgow Caledonian University has had its licence to sponsor foreign students temporarily suspended by the UK Border Agency.
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Ariel casts out Caliban
The concept of the 'killer-ape' offers a pessimistic reflection of humanity and its genesis, but the latest research shows that a primate species whose success is based on mutual aid and pleasure,...
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Leading questions
A French conference debates how to cultivate leadership qualities in MBA students, without losing sight of what really matters in life. Matthew Reisz observes
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Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
Graham Farmelo is impressed by a fresh look at the UK's performance in a much-debated conflict
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Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You
Beneath some Mad men poppycock, Geoffrey K. Pullum spies a smart survey of linguistics in action
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Persecution, Plague and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
In spite of the populism of the title, this is a difficult though forceful book. The Foucauldian "fugitive" of the subtitle gives the game away, for this is a reading of early modern theatre in the...