Opinion: Positive, but hardly logical
Simon Blackburn reads between the lines of Hefce’s missive concerning the academy’s ‘support’ for impact
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All together now
Lancaster University pioneers ‘inclusive curriculum’ to cater for entire student body via course content, delivery and assessment. Melanie Newman reports
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It was fun while it lasted
Both vice-chancellors and academics enjoyed healthy pay rises in 2008-09, although they may seem a distant memory to those now feeling the pinch. Using an exclusive analysis by Grant Thornton, John...
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'Universities are not businesses'
Although vice-chancellors' pay packets rival those of top private-sector CEOs, they shoulder few of the same competitive burdens, Iain Pears notes, while doing great harm to UK academia
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Book of the week: Beauty and Education
A paean to teaching's role in the good society wins Fred Inglis' heart
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Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered
The dismantling of Iraqi intellectual life may have been a deliberate strategy, Roger Matthews learns
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Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
One question that does not seem to exercise the minds of many academics in the UK these days - although maybe it should - is whether universities should teach their students morality. In any case, it...
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The Canon: On Writing Well. By William Zinsser
Verbiage, cliche and clutter are the enemies of good writing. And in this age of social networking sites, instant messaging and email, a book published in 1976 about the art and craft of writing...
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The Little Book of String Theory
Simple analogies put a complex subject well within the layman's reach, discovers Elias Kiritsis
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Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps
This book derives from a Canadian research initiative called The Education-Job Requirement Matching Research Project. The study's overall aim was to bring forward research into the relationship...
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Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin
This is a depressing book. Not because it's badly written or ill-organised - quite the reverse - but because it records, in often numbing detail, how one of the most vibrant cinematic cultures of the...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867-1896Edited by Jason Edwards, reader in art history, University of York, and Imogen Hart, postdoctoral research associate, Yale...
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Admin 'elementals' are a distinct breed 1
Your editorial was right to emphasise the huge amount of support that academics receive from departmental and university administrative teams ("Accidental, but also elemental", 25 March). All British...
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Admin 'elementals' are a distinct breed 2
As one of the "accidental administrators" referred to in "Career strategies" (25 March), perhaps I am fated to agree with many of the sentiments at its core. But I am more uneasy with the article's...
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Scotland the cowed
"The silenced saltire", Tom Gallagher's analysis of Scotland's political culture, is spot on (25 March). Devolution promised a more open, democratic and accountable society, but despite some...