
Search
-

-

Why hiring academics should not be left to other academics
Decisions based on gossip and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic
-

Futurelearn plans Moocs for mobiles
UK-based provider is readying itself for launch in the autumn
-

‘Unijam’ strikes mass chord at University of South Australia
New v-c aims to crowdsource strategy via online meet-up
-

Take the rough with the smooth
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
-

The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique by Philip Lieberman
Kerstin Hoge probes an account of mental creativity that takes no prisoners
-

‘Something new in freedom’
Alastair Bonnett visits Lincoln’s Social Science Centre, a cooperative, free university attempting to build a different kind of knowledge economy
-

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts
Fiona Reid on the military life’s inherent brutality
-

Psychiatry’s cause for anxiety
Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz
-
Neurons don't a man make
Annette Karmiloff-Smith’s cautionary remarks on the limitations of neuroscience in the field of psychology are to be welcomed (“Brain scans go deep, but you need intuition for light-bulb moments”, 16...
-
An immersive art
One can only support the broad thrust of John Furlong’s piece on the dangers facing educational academia (“In pursuit of the truth”, 2 May). Probably the main difficulty facing this field is that...
-
All-too-open invitations
I cannot be the only academic whose in-box is suddenly full of a new kind of invitation. I am urged to join the editorial board of an engineering journal in view of my “outstanding contributions in...
-
Sole-searching
Your suggestion that the Daily Mail might consider launching a regular series of articles on academics and their footwear (The week in higher education, 16 May) may not be entirely frivolous. Over my...
-

Great Gatsby-mania
Catherine Clinton examines the novel’s enduring appeal as Baz Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby bursts on to cinema screens
-

Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter – and More Unequal by Brink Lindsey
An argument that blames financial inequality on ‘cultural attitudes’ exasperates Kitty Stewart