Legacies of tarnished revolutionaries rest in far too much peace
Searching for the resting places of two greats of human sciences, Yiannis Gabriel unlocks the door to Freud and keeps left for Marx
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Controversial US course shows there's a fine line between stupidity and cleverness
It is not something a university would normally want to be associated with, but students in the US are queuing to sign up for a course on stupidity.The class at Los Angeles' Occidental College - the...
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Sex, drugs and snobs: ITV piles on the clichés
Evil professors, outrageous initiation rites and stupendously snobbish students: these are not the images Oxbridge wants to cultivate, but such stereotypes abound in Trinity, a new ITV2 drama set at...
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Lib Dems' fees stance in limbo
'No decision' to mothball abolition plans despite leader's comments. Melanie Newman reports
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The week in higher education
"Bunk beds, night lectures, late loans. Welcome to university life in 2009." The difficulties facing this year's student intake were painfully clear last week when the student-loan system fell into...
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It's evolution, not revolution for REF
Continuities with RAE, but impact to equal one quarter of assessment scores. Zoë Corbyn reports
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News in brief
Public engagementCut out the 'mixed messages'British academics are confused by "mixed messages" from funding bodies and universities about how best to communicate their research findings, according...
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Daytime TV: Seat of learning
Gary Day is unpersuaded by Derren Brown, weeps for Naples and is unenlightened by Trinity
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The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism, by Enda Duffy
Ironically, just as the American automobile industry falters, there have appeared several excellent books on its cultural, social and political dimensions, including Brian Ladd’s Autophobia: Love and...
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24 September 2009
Worldwide window - Does giving away courses and content pay off for universities?
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Terence Kealey: a response to criticism
In our issue of 17 September Terence Kealey was commissioned to write on ‘Lust’ for our feature on the seven deadly sins of academia. Following media attention today, we are happy to publish this...
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Tara Brabazon: NZ has more to offer than cheap lamb roasts
The closure of the Centre for New Zealand Studies has important repercussions for the future study of post-colonialism
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RAE sequel looks strangely familiar
REF consultation shows new assessment model does not represent a radical departure from its predecessor. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Bone professor faces GMC probe
Lead author falsely claimed ‘full access’ to data in study funded and co-authored by Procter & Gamble. Phil Baty reports
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Becoming a teacher is ‘too easy’, says think-tank
Demos report argues that the one-year PGCE is too short and has unacceptably low entry criteria. Melanie Newman reports