13 August 2009
Reasons to be fearful - Financial freefall looms for those who ignore the bottom line
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‘Not for the likes of us’
Poorer students are missing out on places at top universities, a study suggests. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Tara Brabazon: Vive la différence
Rather than treating visiting international students as cash cows or with suspicion, we should value the vital diversity they bring to education
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Employment status: when is a long-serving staff member not an ‘employee’?
The question of employment status is notoriously vexed. It affects the education sector along with all other areas of the workforce. Across the Channel, the world of Gallic reality television has...
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Staff/student dispute resolution is ‘inadequate’, says study
Despite progress, fragmented arrangements leave institutions vulnerable to reputational damage. Melanie Newman reports
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IUSS reaction: undergraduate education has changed, let’s accept it and move on
The question is not whether standards have fallen but rather whether we have the right standards for what we are trying to achieve, says Bob Brecher
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Fugitive postgraduate is expelled
Erich Kofmel, who skipped bail and fled country, gets the boot from Sussex. Melanie Newman reports
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Report points the finger at London Met
KPMG blames institution for student-data inaccuracies and raises spectre of further Hefce action. Melanie Newman reports
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Marginal dip in student satisfaction
But NSS 2009 shows slight rise in assessment and feedback rating. Hannah Fearn reports
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I think critically, therefore I am
Teaching students to read and understand a text properly is essential to their intellectual survival in a complex world, says Linda Elder
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Book of the week: Punishing the Poor
Louise Hardwick on the imbalance in the US social funding see-saw
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The Marvelous Hairy Girls
A family suffering an unusual condition and their experience of their world intrigues Peter J. Smith
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Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics
Three key assumptions underpin the collection of essays that editors Glyn Davis and Gary Needham have brought together. The first is that people watch television (a perfectly reasonable assumption,...
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The Canon: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male/Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. By Alfred Kinsey (with Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin and Paul Gebhard)
Alfred Kinsey was a taxonomist obsessed. Having already made his mark in the study of gall wasps, he later turned to the study of human sexual behaviour after being asked to teach a marriage guidance...
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Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life
Jo-Ann Wallace finds that a lack of personal detail clouds an otherwise valuable biography