The insecure scholar: The little perks make all the difference
A modicum of respect would do wonders for casual staff’s morale
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Gloria Monday: All work and no pay
Gloria Monday is thrilled to learn of her promotion to professor, until she discovers the absence of a corresponding pay rise
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Scientists compromised by commercial links
Concerns are mounting that scientific and technological research funded by business could be undermining universities’ openness and independence. Zoë Corbyn reports
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‘Too much information’ – Facebook users may be revealing more than they think
Privacy issues raised as lists of friends analysed to indicate sexual orientation. Jon Marcus reports
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Tara Brabazon: Research for research’s sake
The point of a Masters or PhD is not to create art but to build evidence, writes Tara Brabazon
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The world today: 09 October 2009
A round-up of higher education news from across the globe
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QAA berates Greenwich over academic standards
Watchdog demands that ‘misleading’ information and ‘inconsistencies’ are addressed.
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World today: 8 October 2009
IsraelFears that budget cuts will threaten Nobel attainmentBudget cuts in Israeli higher education will make it difficult for academics to win honours such as the Nobel Prize, the Council for Higher...
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Book of the week: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Will the web's total recall threaten our identities? wonders Henry Farrell
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Muriel Spark: The Biography
Martin McQuillan finds flashes of biographical gold revealed despite a life self-mythologising
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1939: Countdown to War
Dealing with history constantly raises the question of perspective. In his magnificent How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, Donald Cameron Watt states that the cataloguers of...
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The Canon: Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language, Thought and Reality is not a very interesting title for a book, and in many ways Benjamin Whorf's subject is not very promising either, being about the structure and nature of language....
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Security and Environmental Change
We should heed this warning against militarising environmental hazards, writes Tim Dunne
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Bugs and the Victorians
Bugs and the Victorians is an exploration of the coming of age of entomology in Britain. The collection and curation of insects, our omnipresent and abundant companions, was nothing more than a...
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Killing in War
It is commonly said that "all is fair in love and war": soldiers have the moral right to kill other soldiers in wartime whether or not their cause is just. One reason is that soldiers are permitted...