Appraisal system will restrict freedom, scholars say
Academics fight proposals to align individuals’ research goals with managers’ objectives. Hannah Fearn reports
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Opinion: From Tottenham to the top
As the gateway to the professions, universities must do all they can, including considering context in admissions, to ensure fair access, says David Lammy
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Publisher attempts to rein in radical medical journal
Editor rejects proposal to have submissions peer reviewed. Zoë Corbyn reports
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The counterfeiters: fake institutions escape clampdown
Database shows 271 bogus universities are still operating in the UK. Melanie Newman reports
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Undergraduate numbers continue to rise
Ucas figures show 6 per cent increase in students with places in 2009-10. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Get happy, and get on with it
Projects to boost staff wellbeing are all the rage, but some people wonder if the interest in workers' psychological health belies a rather less altruistic agenda. Melanie Newman reports
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You can lecture, but can you teach?
Protests against the idea that academics be given teacher-training are misguided, argues Eric Sotto
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A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Dennis Baron is never any less than genial in this account of the relationship between reading, writing and technology. Unfortunately, he is never very much more than genial either. A Better Pencil...
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Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty
Paul Rahe's new work is not only an erudite challenge to traditional views of Baron de Montesquieu as a backward-looking aristocratic liberal seeking to restore feudal limitations on the dictatorial...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- James Barry, 1741-1806: History PainterEdited by Tom Dunne, emeritus professor of history, University College Cork, and William Pressly, professor of art history...
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Inventing a Socialist Nation
East Germany's selective use of homeland culture in its reconstruction is illuminating, writes Gareth Dale
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At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean
Why must we go down to the sea again? In wrestling with this question and the apparent ubiquity of the ocean in Shakespeare's oeuvre, Steve Mentz provides some intriguing suggestions. He also...
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The Canon: Crime and Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century. By J.J. Tobias
Some books exhibit such scope and endeavour, provoking thought and initiating responses, that they are surely canonical. In the field of the history of crime and its social context, this book is one...
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Destination unknown
What happens after death remains a mystery, but as John Casey tells Matthew Reisz, he has drawn upon his religious struggles to illuminate the way
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Book of the week: Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks
Tom Palaima is persuaded to think in new ways about classical culture