Meritocracy knocks
The 2008 RAE results mean that funders will have to judge institutions on delivery, not reputation, writes Gerald Bennett
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‘Disability’ under the Disability Discrimination Act
In this article we consider a recent case on the question of when an employee is “disabled” for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
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Book of the week: Major Farran's Hat
Tony Kushner admires an analysis of a brutal episode in British history
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The week in books
Finance: Servant or Deceiver? Financialization at the Crossroads by Paul H. Dembinski, professor of economics, University of Fribourg. Palgrave Macmillan, £60.00, ISBN 9780230220379"Some of the book'...
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Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth
The pressure to be economically relevant is more injurious than implied here, says Graham Farmelo
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Plato's Ghost: the Modernist Transformation of Mathematics
Music, literature and the visual arts all underwent modernist transformations around the turn of the 20th century. Could it be that mathematics did the same thing? Just to give this question serious...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, St Andrews
1. Quantitative Approaches in Business Studies, Seventh Edition by Clare Morris. Pearson Education, £38.99. ISBN 978037088962. Art in Theory 1900-2000, Second Edition by Charles Harrison and Paul...
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Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope
Alex Danchev is underwhelmed by some well-meaning but overpriced utopian futurology
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Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit
Andrew Marvell's poetry has long been attended by critical controversy or quizzical scepticism, due in part to his characteristic ambivalence and additionally by debate about his biography and...
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Warp and Weft: Chinese Language and Culture
With the rise of China as a global power triggering increasing demand for people with knowledge of Chinese language and culture, Keekok Lee's new book is undoubtedly a timely and more than welcome...
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Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia
Laleh Khalili on an academic agony aunt who advises on everything from sex to seminar etiquette
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Obelisk: A History
James Stevens Curl on an exploration of obelisks, and what these far-from-static monuments signify
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Men in Caring Occupations: Doing Gender Differently
Men in Caring Occupations goes some way to overturn Mairtin Mac an Ghaill's (1994) suggestion that the absence of focus on men and masculinities in mainstream academic research on occupations signals...
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The Music of Joni Mitchell
In a career that spans almost half a century, Canadian singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell has released a body of work that has seen her embrace a variety of creative areas that far outreach her...
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Published this week
? = forthcoming reviewART AND DESIGN- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black PortraitureBy Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett professor of art and art history, Duke University. University of Chicago...