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Licence to reproduce and a formula for fair use
North American test cases strive to get to grips with copyright in the modern age. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• From an Elsevier boycotter to one of the sector's most prominent female vice-chancellors, the Queen's Birthday Honours List, announced on 16 June, recognised a diverse array of higher education...
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Leader: Provider, where is thy sting?
Private growth in the sector is a tender subject, but the reality is more complex than ideologues on both sides would have it
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Off Piste - Heart and Seoul
Scholarly links introduced R.C. Richardson to the Republic of Korea. His sole regret, in an ensuing 30-year love affair with its land, culture and people, is that so few of his fellow Britons choose...
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From Where I Sit - Procrustean measures
The University of Sydney's "underperforming staff" redeployment fiasco, which has unravelled over the past six months, is the latest in a series of rationalisations and narrow-minded governance that...
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Odds and quads
These items - now owned by the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich - are all linked to the crazily ambitious French composer and conductor Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-60).
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Appointments
Teesside UniversityRosie MeekTeesside's newly appointed professor of psychology and criminal justice said she was ready for a new challenge despite having spent five "enjoyable and productive" years...
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21 June 2012
High-brow humour - The campus novel: a comic brew with a sobering bite
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Yoko Ono: TO THE LIGHT
An exhibition showcasing five decades of Yoko Ono’s work downplays her dark side in favour of more uplifting, regenerative themes, finds Helena Reckitt
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Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities
Urban centres across the world were built with racial separation in mind, Wendy Pullan discovers
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Failing the Turing test
The REF's mendacious language and mismeasurements will recognise neither singular world-changing brilliance nor the value inherent in all scholarship, Fred Inglis argues. This bureaucratic beast,...
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Publishing tail must not wag research dog
Regarding "Let's ask profitable questions" (Leader, 7 June): the urgent issue today is not publisher profits but research access for all would-be users, not just those whose institutions can afford...
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Self-destructive tendencies (1 of 2)
Following the recent decision by delegates at the University and College Union congress to resume the "work-to-rule" action by staff on pensions, the employers have (entirely predictably) broken off...
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Self-destructive tendencies (2 of 2)
As a delegate to the UCU congress, I was struck by the stark contrast between the views expressed and supported by the majority of delegates and those obtained by the general secretary in her...