Editor digs in over Medical Hypotheses reform
Bruce Charlton rejects Elsevier ultimatum to implement peer review as publisher threatens him with the sack. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: The best of places to share uncomfortable words
Truly independent alternative bookshops serve students, academics and society by offering an outlet for risky and challenging titles, says Tara Brabazon
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Five the hard way
Union accuses Cardiff of heavy-handed tactics over redundancies. Hannah Fearn reports
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Monoglottal stop
Arresting the decline of foreign language learning in the UK is vital to business competitiveness and young people’s development, argue David Lammy and Diana Johnson
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Sir D’Arcy networks from beyond the grave
Facebook friends flock to a 150-year-old Scottish polymath, reports Sarah Cunnane
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Opinion: Positive, but hardly logical
Simon Blackburn reads between the lines of Hefce’s missive concerning the academy’s ‘support’ for impact
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All together now
Lancaster University pioneers ‘inclusive curriculum’ to cater for entire student body via course content, delivery and assessment. Melanie Newman reports
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It was fun while it lasted
Both vice-chancellors and academics enjoyed healthy pay rises in 2008-09, although they may seem a distant memory to those now feeling the pinch. Using an exclusive analysis by Grant Thornton, John...
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'Universities are not businesses'
Although vice-chancellors' pay packets rival those of top private-sector CEOs, they shoulder few of the same competitive burdens, Iain Pears notes, while doing great harm to UK academia
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Book of the week: Beauty and Education
A paean to teaching's role in the good society wins Fred Inglis' heart
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Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered
The dismantling of Iraqi intellectual life may have been a deliberate strategy, Roger Matthews learns
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Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
One question that does not seem to exercise the minds of many academics in the UK these days - although maybe it should - is whether universities should teach their students morality. In any case, it...
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The Canon: On Writing Well. By William Zinsser
Verbiage, cliche and clutter are the enemies of good writing. And in this age of social networking sites, instant messaging and email, a book published in 1976 about the art and craft of writing...
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The Little Book of String Theory
Simple analogies put a complex subject well within the layman's reach, discovers Elias Kiritsis
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Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps
This book derives from a Canadian research initiative called The Education-Job Requirement Matching Research Project. The study's overall aim was to bring forward research into the relationship...