Book of the week: Teaching What You Don't Know
Leslie Gofton on advice for neophytes in the lecture-theatre spotlight
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When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World
Gregory Kent says an important study on the growing power of modern China is incomplete
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Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
With this witty and polemical book, Terry Eagleton finally fulfils the promise of his early years as a left-wing Catholic. Here at last is his defence of Christianity as a radical movement comparable...
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The Canon: Speculum of the Other Woman. By Luce Irigaray
When the weekly series The Canon began in April 2009, the question was posed: is there a "baggy monster" of a book that has opened up new ways of thinking and come to count as a classic in your...
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My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture
A look at copyright crime from the student point of view is a refreshing change, says Kim Louise Walden
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Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
We all have one or two of them, or at least most of us do - books that made us readers, if not bibliophiles. Some are books to be proclaimed proudly in conversation - Hans Christian Andersen's...
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Postfemininities in Popular Culture
We discover how old we are when the people we read in our youth are rediscovered by a subsequent generation. The renewed interest in figures such as Shulamith Firestone and Kate Millett is a theme of...
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A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - The Men and Women Who Fought For Our Freedoms
A.W. Purdue enjoys this well-told tale, but isn't convinced that riots brought about social change
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'Quality' controls must be eliminated
I agree that there are huge problems with lack of autonomy in British universities ("Winning the war of independence", 3 September), but it is not just in the US where things are better - there is...
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A dangerous precedent
We, the undersigned, are psychologists alarmed by the treatment of our colleagues at the University of Surrey.As part of the university's plan to reduce its financial deficit, the department of...
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Two meanings of teaching 1
Jo Pickering's letter (3 September) criticising Joao Magueijo's article on the teacher training of university lecturers reveals certain assumptions underlying the whole project. In particular, she...
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Two meanings of teaching 2
Amid the ping-pong of debate ("Those who can, get a PhD; those who can't, simply teach anyway", August), has the issue of advancing knowledge by working at a high level of academic discipline in one'...
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Poisoned chalice
The search for robust and accessible means of comparing the quality of different courses and institutions is becoming higher education's equivalent of the search for the Holy Grail ("Pressure grows...
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Training days
Having worked in the field many years ago, I enjoyed Adrian Furnham's typology of trainers ("Prepare to meet your trainer", August).My first training job involved working for a training manager in...
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Virtual barriers will crumble
Your article about the impending decline in the use of virtual-world technologies may be an accurate reflection of the "hype cycle", but it could be misleading if used to interpret the long-term...