Gloria Monday: A generation betrayed
Outrage over MPs’ expenses will be as nothing to the howls unleashed when people learn that ‘education, education, education’ was a false promise, says Gloria Monday
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Bullied Blogger: Have a nice day… your P45 is in the post
I decide to get a courier service to collect my things from the university. 17 boxes. They are all delivered in NICEDAY packaging. “Have a nice day,” says the courier. “I will, thank you,” I reply. I...
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No one knows what a degree is worth, says Guild of Educators
Problems with ‘consistency and interpretation’ mean it may be time to ‘bust open’ classification. Hannah Fearn writes
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Promised London Met inquiry revealed to be Hefce exercise
MPs demand apology from Lammy as they learn there will be no new scrutiny of London Met crisis. Melanie Newman reports
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Government announces inquiry into London Met crisis
MPs allege that Hefce colluded with university over inaccurate data. Melanie Newman reports
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Persecution (is) complex
The introduction of a managerialist culture has coincided with a rise in accusations of bullying. But is there really more mistreatment, or are academics accustomed to autonomy overreacting to firm...
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A kind of intellectual cancer
Good and powerful ideas have a tendency to spread wildly and destructively. Alec Ryrie ponders the many ways Darwinism has been used and abused and feels just a bit queasy
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Thriftiness will not tame deviant capitalism's damaging excesses
Belt-tightening may be on everyone's lips, but calls for parsimony won't stop a system that threatens to unravel society, writes Mary Evans
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The Light/Dark Universe
When one looks up at the night sky, many questions are evoked: why do stars twinkle? Why does the moon have so many phases? How many stars are there? Are we alone in the Universe?However, as non-...
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The Canon: The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama. By Lord Raglan
Lord Raglan (1885-1964) was a self-taught anthropologist and folklorist. For him, religion means ritual, not belief, but he brings together myth with ritual in his key book, The Hero (1936).The "myth...
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Book of the week: Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955
June Purvis welcomes a compelling tale of an overlooked feminist
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Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions under New Labour
An analysis of workers' alliances should engage more with workers themselves, says Sian Moore
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Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses
Once upon a time," complains Prince Lucio Rimanez in the best-selling of Victorian novels, Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1895), "it was considered the height of indelicacy and low breeding to...
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Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel
Whether or not "writing about music is like dancing about architecture. It's a stupid thing to do", as a quip often attributed to Elvis Costello would have it, the uses of music within fiction are...
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History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan
A. W. Purdue finds a study of a neglected area of the 20th century complex and penetrating