More things in heaven and earth, Horatio
Employers have discovered that a mind sharpened by the study of philosophy is ideal for today's workplace, writes Hannah Fearn
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RAE reaction: Fair attempt to achieve the impossible
Ray J. Paul, a member of two subpanels in RAE 2008, says funding should be less elitist than it was in 2001 but argues that the use of peer review needs careful consideration if it is to be used in...
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Positive discrimination and positive action
By Diane Gilhooley
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Results are out, spin is in
Managers have gone to work on the RAE figures, and now Gloria Monday does not know if her university has gone up, down or nowhere at all. But she knows she’s unlikely to be any better off
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Emotional truths
The standard critical and academic response to the film Australia from the likes of Germaine Greer miss the point about the artificiality of cinema and the use of sentiment as style, argues Tara...
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A wonderful world
Gary Day finds a Santa lookalike in Egypt, bigotry in Kansas, sublime jazz and rapidly melting Arctic ice
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Spielberg’s lawyers order Lampeter to ‘cease and desist’
When the University of Wales, Lampeter chose a photograph of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg to illustrate a course leaflet, it probably did not envisage the brochure ever coming to the director’...
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RAE reaction: Go figure
As universities strive to cast their RAE results in the best possible light and the media struggle to grasp the big picture, Nancy Rothwell argues that assessment will always help improve performance
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RAE reaction: Shoot for the blue skies
The RAE and its ilk constrain academics, says Donald W. Braben, who invites institutions to emulate a UCL scheme that offers complete freedom to researchers pursuing groundbreaking discoveries
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The basic legal rights and obligations in relation to annual leave
Amid the holiday season, we review some of the basic legal rights and obligations in relation to annual leave.
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Lancaster produces alternative RAE 2008 rankings
Institutions’ selectivity in submitting staff to research assessment exercise should be taken into account, says 1994 Group member
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Book of the Week - What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
Chris McManus lauds an ethnographer's long hard look in the mirror
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The Week in Books
From Genocide to Continental War: The 'Congolese' Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa by Gerard Prunier, director, French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa. Hurst Books, £40.00,...
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The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment
The world cannot sustain rampant consumerism, but Jules Pretty doesn't buy all the arguments
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A Philosophy of Fear
We live in an age of fear. We are confronted daily with headlines proclaiming the dangers of modern life, ranging from paedophilia to natural disasters, terrorism to disease. Lars Svendsen's short...