Daytime TV: Losing everything
Those who sleep rough have pasts full of pain. Gary Day watches a fight for survival in lives of misery
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Diary
LondonThe Train DriverAthol Fugard, probably South Africa's best-known dramatist, produced definitive exposés of labour conditions and miscegenation laws under apartheid in plays such as Boesman and...
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The Pick - Under the influence
High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and CultureThe Wellcome Collection, London, until February 2011"Every society", claims curator Mike Jay, "is a high society." A Cypriot "juglet" from...
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Impact loses impact shock
Suggestions that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has almost totally capitulated to its critics by substantially redefining the notion of impact have been hotly denied by Brian Bryan...
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Mass spectacle
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a dazzling display of gridiron, greatness and God
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Leader: In the near distance, liberation
Although lecturers are wary of the online courses now seen as financial lifelines, they may offer unexpected scholarly benefits
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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From where I sit - A little more application required
The Japanese government has set a policy aim of increasing the internationalisation of higher education in both teaching and research. Recognising the limited Japanese-language capabilities of...
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Kathleen Jones, 1922-2010
A pioneering historian of British mental health provision has died.Kathleen Jones was born in London on 7 April 1922 and won scholarships to North London Collegiate School and then to read modern...
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Research intelligence - The new rules of the game
Panels near consensus on how research 'impact' should be reported and assessed. Paul Jump reports
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Arts and impact: with friends like these (1 of 4)
The humanities may yet survive, if only they can be protected from their current advocates. The articles by Judy Simons and Rick Rylance ("REF pilot: humanities impact is evident and can be measured...
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Arts and impact: with friends like these (2 of 4)
Although the coalition government appears indifferent to everything save the market, it has offered to concede one academic value: to his credit, David Willetts, the universities and science minister...
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Arts and impact: with friends like these (3 of 4)
I was one of the 13,000 academics who signed the University and College Union petition against "impact" last year. As it happens, my department was then selected to take part in the research...
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Arts and impact: with friends like these (4 of 4)
The results of the Higher Education Funding Council for England pilot, showing how the assessment of research's socio-economic impact can be incorporated into the REF, are to be welcomed. It is clear...
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The choice delusion (1 of 2)
We have now heard from both vice-chancellors who served on the Browne Review committee. Aston University's Julia King reassured us of the panel's "independence", but also revealed that it took full...