Liverpool as a place of music culture and a space of myth creation through the virtual sanctification of its most popularly significant band, the Beatles, has been the subject of many journalistic...
Great plays ... tend to locate themselves at moments of severe transition, disintegration or dismantlement, when the overlap or interfaces between the individual and society and history are in flux...
Eleanor Sterling discusses a species' rapid decline at our hands ... and what we can do about it
ART AND DESIGN- Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and PoliticsEdited by Michael Goddard, lecturer in media studies, and Benjamin Halligan, director of the Graduate School, both at the University...
Next year's recurrent grant announcement signals difficult times ahead for England's academy. Of course, it is just the start.To meet the challenges ahead, we will have to be more creative with the...
Richard Overy's article on the defence of history ("The historical present", 29 April) tries hard to be even-handed, but exposes a tension within the discipline over what "history" is. He seems...
"It's time to put the point back into the pen of scholarly writing" (6 May) illustrates several excellent points about specialist publications in academic journals and books.Perhaps the disconnect...
Rosy Daniel describes me as undemocratic, antisocial and prejudiced ("'Bad' scientist", Letters, 29 April). Ouch.I understand that she may be a bit upset, having recently been rejected by the...
In your article "He didn't see that coming, or did he?" (29 April), a private matter between Brian Josephson and I was brought into the public domain in an improper, unhelpful and misleading manner....
J.D. Turner's article "Putting the world back in working order" (29 April) takes an unnecessarily pessimistic view of both the popularity of engineering as a subject and the effects of professional...
"Bangers for your buck: the MBA proudly built on sausage-factory ideal" (Cover, 6 May): had the University of Poppleton (and no doubt the degree's sponsor, Poppleton Pork Products) finally won a long...
Stephen Hawking thinks that we'd be safest avoiding intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe (The Week in Higher Education, 29 April). This is unlikely to be a problem. If the life is genuinely...
A leading academic administrator and inspirational teacher of economics has died. Roger Van Noorden was born in London on 8 July 1939 and spent the war years in Buckinghamshire before returning to...
Task force calls for an end to internal promotions to professorships. Melanie Newman reports
"We are already consulting our libel lawyers." That was the immediate reaction of our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, to the news that another institution of higher education was...