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 Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
John Welshman gives the thumbs up to the suggestion that egalitarian countries work best
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21 May 2009
Bullying - Professional pressures, unfair tactics and shattered lives
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Chief scientist takes a stand
Beddington criticises homoeopathy in NHS and Home Secretary’s treatment of drugs adviser. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: When ‘excellence’ is not enough
Our desire, individually and collectively, to respect students, colleagues and universities is the best way to drive up teaching quality, says Tara Brabazon
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More complaints, but fewer justified, says OIA report
Independent Adjudicator fielded 900 student complaints in 2008, but only 7 per cent of the 630 cases it closed were upheld. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Bullied Blogger: I am no Spartacus
13 May: My solicitor, Debbie Smith, has explained that the university is enthusiastic to reach an agreement that involves me leaving with a gagging order. She suggests I write my reference for the...
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Union calls off ballot for industrial action
The University and College Union has called off its ballot for industrial action
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The threatened flu pandemic - issues for institutions and staff
Our regular weekly legal column this week tackles the issue of swine flu and how universities should prepare, should they be affected
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Pursuit of IP is ‘a distraction’
Hefce director says a broad range of engagement with business should be top of the agenda. Hannah Fearn reports
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Liverpool lifts threat of closure from three departments
Reprieve depends on meeting targets in research performance, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers
Graham Farmelo on a study of physicists, who stand 'between the sacred and the secular'
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From Marxism to Post-Marxism?
Coincidences can be curious. A blog post by Arindam Chaudhuri, the renowned Indian management guru, materialised in cyberspace when I was reading this book. In his blog Chaudhuri writes: "They are...
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The Canon: The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis
Many refer to it but few have read it. Yes, I am talking about F. R. Leavis' The Great Tradition, first published in 1948. The date is important. It helps explain the central aim of the book, to...