22 October 2009
The postgraduate labyrinth - How to steer doctoral candidates to success
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The write stuff?
Academic authors to debate the pros and cons of creative writing courses. Hannah Fearn reports
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Tara Brabazon: Beware writers bearing promises of a free internet
A new book about what is free on the internet is no anarcho-syndicalist guide to subversion, cautions Tara Brabazon
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Languages need a single voice to command attention, says review
Scholars advised to unite to win vital support from institutions and Government. Melanie Newman reports
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Cash carrot for academy to meet industrial needs
Lord Mandelson announces incentives to encourage rapid responses to ‘fill niche gaps in the skills base’. Phil Baty reports
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The insecure scholar: career-making journal articles will have to wait
What with the pull of book-writing and the need to earn a living, there’s no time to achieve ‘high-impact’ status
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Oxford students criticise university for spending millions on public affairs
Student newspaper quotes students complaining of ‘deficiencies in basic facilities’
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Postcode lottery exacerbates university participation rates
Study shows that the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening
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Rich beware: Robin Hood rises again
Courses on beneficent outlaw flourish in hard times
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Accolades flow for innovation and excellence
Teesside rewarded with top prize in 2009 sector awards
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THE Awards 2009: winners announced
The Times Higher Education Awards are now in their fifth year and are firmly established in the world of higher education. Once again, the amazing display of talent in UK higher education astounded...
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Book of the week: Nature's Ghosts
Jules Pretty discusses humanity's tardy conservation efforts
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Organising Poetry
Christoph Bode admires the scholarship but finds no space for novelty in this Romantic study
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Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England
Adam Kuper's thesis is that "marriage within the family - between cousins or between in-laws - was a characteristic strategy of the new bourgeoisie, which had a great deal to do with the success of...
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The Canon: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects By Mary Wollstonecraft
In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft articulated an idea that students now write about with (perhaps misjudged) ease: society constructs gender. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman discussed the many ways...