BIS ministerial team announced
David Lammy keeps his higher education brief, but ‘student issues’ are now the responsibility of the Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs
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Constructive dismissal - a change in approach
Constructive dismissal is one of the more common claims considered by employment tribunals. However, a recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal may alter how tribunals approach this issue...
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Universities 'delighted', not horrified, by new ministry, Mandelson claims
New BIS head’s first speech focuses on how to turn discoveries into jobs. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Make the intellectual capital work
Many hope that higher education will help pull the UK out of recession. Matthew Reisz assesses the growth potential in the sector's resources
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Look at yourself
Business scandals have led to a boom in ethics courses, and to questions about the academy's role in such lapses, writes Jon Marcus
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A very peculiar practice
Such is the pressure to write that academics have no time to read the flood of published work. John Corner ponders a slightly absurd position
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Coming to a screen near you
Distance learning is a success, with the provision and demand for it and the technology to support it on the rise. But, as Hannah Fearn reports, the pace of change can make it hard to keep up
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The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity and Globalization
Mary Evans agrees that the Western definition of female beauty has global economic significance
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Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
It is not always easy, in our world of lightning-fast communications, to appreciate that there was, as historian David Armitage claims, a "prehistory of globalisation". One of the greatest monuments...
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The Canon: The Making of Homeric Verse. By Milman Parry
In 1933, a bold, brave and very young Harvard University classicist, Milman Parry, set out to solve the Homeric Question. He wanted to know how the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed. In order to...
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Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England
Sophie Gilmartin discovers a sensational account of couples who fell foul of Victorian marriage laws
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The Mind of Jihad
Anyone who has been to a bookshop in the past seven years can testify to the enormous growth in the literature on terrorism and jihadism. The literature has also become increasingly specialised, with...
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THE Book of the Week - Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature
Innocent or knowing? Shelley King on the portrayal of children in Victorian writing
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The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
Anne Hogan enjoys this analysis of the interplay between the Sun King's reign and theatre
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Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider
Elia Kazan seems as likely to be remembered for his politics as for his work as film director, stage director and novelist - an outcome that would scarcely have pleased him. But his decision in 1952...