Napier introduces six-month route to masters
Students who do not have bachelors degrees will be able to study for postgraduate masters degrees as part of a Napier University initiative.A new part-time "bridging to masters" programme offered by...
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Fear of anti-terror laws leads to a growing climate of self-censorship
Lecturers steer students away from some topics and get material vetted. Melanie Newman reports
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Daytime TV: Sex, filth, but no dirt
Gary Day watches out-of-control teenage bodies, an unkempt Russell Brand and a cleaned-up Dickens
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A sour taste in celebrity confection
In his latest TV series, Jamie Oliver adopts a ministerial cloak while undermining governmental efforts and mechanisms to effect social change, argues Tara Brabazon
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Still no call from No 10?
In the UK, the gulf between the political and the academic worlds seems all-but unbreachable while Americans flit easily between lecture halls and halls of power. Here Matthew Reisz examines why...
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From campus to Capitol and back again
In America, it is common for academics to play a prominent political role. Jon Marcus reports
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Devil's advocate
Milton expert Stanley Fish refuses to demonise the administrator and warns against influencing the moral character of students, he tells Matthew Reisz
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Conducting a fair recruitment process
Careful adherence to recruitment policies and procedure when hiring staff will help protect against charges of discrimination
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Still sometimes a great nation
A rich portrait of a country at the crossroads offers Richard King a sense of where it might be headed
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Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
If the alternative leftist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries were to trace themselves back to a spiritual forefather, Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) would be waiting there, philosophically, up...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Portsmouth
1. Marketing by Paul Bains, Chris Fill and Kelly Page. Oxford University Press, £35.99. ISBN 97801992904372. Operations Management by Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers and Robert Johnston. Pearson...
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Ancient crucibles of civic ideals
According to a legend that was prevalent in 12th-century monastic circles, when the tomb of Plato was found his corpse "bore on its breast a golden tablet inscribed, 'I believe in the Christ who will...
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Her Oxford
The University of Oxford was in no hurry to admit women students. When 21 young women took up residence at Somerville and Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) in 1879, the university took no official notice of...
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Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet
Concern over the reliability of information offered on the internet pervades higher education. Although the benefits of the internet are universally applauded, we are struggling to establish...