Mary Midgley: more than a sum of parts
Exasperated by a profusion of loose thinking, the philosopher tackles the assertion that the self is only a manifestation of the physical body
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Times Higher Education pay survey 2014
What’s behind the big rises for vice-chancellors? Plus, academic pay across the UK
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Resolve student complaints within set time limits, says OIA
Draft Good Practice Framework proposes adoption of early dispute resolution approach
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Zygmunt Bauman rebuffs plagiarism accusation
Sociologist claims high-quality scholarship does not depend on obedience to technical rules on referencing
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The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch, by Lewis Dartnell
What will we need to know to reboot civilisation after the apocalypse?, asks Alison Stokes
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Sir David Watson: Russell Group is not all it’s cracked up to be
Senior scholar decries ‘divisive’ mission groups and government’s market focus
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Let’s discuss the way we live now
Good communication is vital when dealing with allegations of harassment, says Luke Brunning
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Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, by Davina Cooper
Howard Segal on an analysis of six small-scale projects and their participants’ experiences
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This bias has wings
I was really enjoying “For the greater good” (Opinion, March). It was, I thought, a well-argued solution to how the government should use the funding system to align the interests of students,...
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Q&A with Alice Roberts
We speak to the new president of the Association for Science Education
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Durham v-c wanted student paper ‘to be an advertisement’
Former Palatinate editors claim they feared expulsion after intervention by Chris Higgins
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Short shrift from staff for Queen Mary’s short form
Implementation of QML abbreviation delayed while opposing academics are consulted
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More data can lead to poor student choices, Hefce learns
Overwhelmed university applicants filter out information to cope, research finds
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Marking boycott is an unconscionable sanction
Many lecturers will not even consider the ‘nuclear option’ of boycotting marking in the pay dispute, says Bill Ashraf
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Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World, by Michael Scott
Barbara Graziosi on the ‘management consultant’ whose advice was sought for more than 1,000 years