Sink or swim
How can it happen that substandard work is submitted for doctoral examination, ask David Alexander and Ian Davis. In their experience, it is because candidates have been allocated supervisors with...
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Elite vampires show appeal of living forever
The vampire as cultured aesthete is the beatless heart of Jim Jarmusch’s peculiarly reassuring film, says Lucy Bolton
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20 February 2014
Sink or swim - Is poor supervision to blame for substandard doctoral theses?
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Hillman holds his hands up over RAB charge ‘mistake’
Hepi director’s mea culpa comes as he considers ‘problems in the status quo’
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‘Spooky Mooc’ students shun Edge Hill academic credit
University’s Vampire Fictions course ends with no participants opting to pay for official recognition of their achievement
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Students need a tough consumer advocate
Martin McQuillan argues that the market for undergraduate higher education is broken and that Which? should step away from the role we have played as an information provider and advocate for students...
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Promoting gender balance
In just over two weeks’ time, many organisations, charities and individuals will be taking part in International Women’s Day, which this year takes as its theme “inspiring change”, encouraging “...
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Hard line on boycott could cost staff thousands
Experts foresee tough reaction from universities to UCU’s ‘ultimate sanction’
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber
When the lending system isn’t working, interests rate a check, advises Howard Davies
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Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf, by miriam cooke
Discussion of underground and emergent queer cultures are interesting, but Caroline Osella wishes for more insight from a respected scholar
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The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age, by Alison Phipps
Mary Evans agrees that feminism today focuses on women’s agency and identity at the expense of examining framing structures
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The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and her History in China, by Ronald C. Egan
Eva Shan Chou lauds an original, erudite portrait of a writer whose courage matched her creativity
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Literature in the First Media Age: Britain between the Wars, by David Trotter
Gary Day on an exploration of new technologies’ effects on artists’ representation of the world
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Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642, by Tim Harris
Ronald Hutton praises a tour de force on the causes of the English Civil War