Career strategies
Many of the UK's 'accidental' administrators think that their work is not valued and that their US counterparts enjoy higher status. John Morgan considers what gives the professional edge
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My Eureka Moment: Listening for the quiet voices
Lin Foxhall's rural childhood enabled her to see the significance of studying the lives of people traditionally overlooked by historians and archaeologists
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Heated discussions
The email conversations at the heart of 'Climategate' suggest a campaign to nobble journals, marginalise climate-change sceptics and withhold data from other researchers, says Andrew Montford
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The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-being
Basing politics on what makes people happy is a good thing, isn't it? Maybe, says Paul Stenner
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Michelangelo's Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence
Raymond Tallis, gerontologist and philosopher, has something in common with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. He grabs readers as they pass and regales them with extraordinary accounts of impressive...
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The Canon: Poetics. Aristotle
Aristotle's Poetics is an analysis of the principles of dramatic writing from the 4th century BC. Despite its age, anyone with a passing appreciation of narrative structure probably knows more about...
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Update the standard operating procedure
Surgery allows no room for error. Surgeon and researcher Atul Gawande prescribes the use of checklists to get it right. Matthew Reisz reports
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Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005
André Laliberté ponders the party's clampdown on an organisation that seems to pose little threat
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES- Franchising GloballyBy Ilan Alon, George D. and Harriet W. Cornell professor of international business, Rollins College, Florida. Palgrave...
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Book of the week: The Task of the Critic
Willy Maley salutes a live-wire intellect, part terrier, part trickster
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Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 1
I was surprised to read the piece by Geoff Lucas denouncing research showing that all other things being equal, state-school students obtain better degrees than independent-school pupils ("Uneven...
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Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 2
Contrary to Geoff Lucas, I am delighted that Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, is using his position and influence to highlight the issue of fair admissions to university. The snippets of "...
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Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 3
A representative of independent schools lecturing us on the "unfairness" of university admissions? Oh, the irony. Presumably an admissions policy based on parental wealth would be fine?Janet Hobbs,...
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Immoral and unenforceable 1
All (intellectual) property is thievable. The case Times Higher Education reported last week emphasises failure at a number of levels ("What's yours is ours ... but not all agree", 18 March). When...
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Immoral and unenforceable 2
I was surprised to see that "What's yours is ours ..." focused on the extent to which institutional regulations justified Remco Polman's actions, but ignored the issue of his professional...