Michael Goulder, 1927-2010
A leading theologian who abandoned a promising career in the church to become an "unaggressive atheist" has died.Michael Goulder was born on 31 May 19 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford...
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Review wars
In an unprecedented UK move, Professor Lapping of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies has announced that he is to institute a libel action against Dr E. Stobart, the reviewer of his recently...
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Off Piste: Kin, kinder and kindness
Richard Larschan recalls a genealogical quest and how the generosity of strangers in a foreign land led to unintentional revelations
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From where I sit: boiling point
While the fatal shootings at the University of Alabama in Huntsville last month were shocking in themselves, they also must have prompted much pondering among academics about the stressful road to...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research intelligence: Gifts for posterity
An oral history project is interviewing the stars of UK science and their unsung supporting acts. Zoë Corbyn writes
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Leader: Red tape: A form of distrust
As audit overloads academics, it also undermines their freedoms, impedes their work and damages their public standing
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Slip your intellectual leash
Cato, the feline friend of Dan Cohn-Sherbok, puts the cat among the pigeons and says don’t be a mutt, keep a moggie
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Practising what we preach
Malcolm Gillies on our duty to offer students ethical and intellectual models
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Institute of Education - New life for old school ties
The records of 3,000 schools are to be opened in a project to restore and catalogue an important collection at the Institute of Education. The IoE has won £41,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to...
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Staffordshire University - Forward march to a field of study
Soldiers and other members of the Armed Forces will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of conflict issues thanks to a new course. Staffordshire University is one of six approved...
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University of the West of England - Swindon can wait
Plans for a university campus in Swindon have been put on hold indefinitely in the wake of cuts in government funding. The University of the West of England has been told that money is no longer...
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Royal College of Art - Safety glasses
Some of the most horrific facial injuries resulting from drink-fuelled violence are caused by shattered pint glasses. In an attempt to limit the damage such attacks can do, the Royal College of Art...
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Bangor University - From inn to outstanding
A lecture charting the colourful history of Bangor University is to tell the story of its growth from a small college teaching 58 students in the Penrhyn Arms inn to an independent university with 13...
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University of Warwick - Surviving splitsville
A study of university students has found that they normally emerge unscathed from the recent divorce of their parents. Economists at the University of Warwick measured the productivity and happiness...