Disciplinary action taken after public airing of staff survey results
Conference speech fuels OU row over compulsory retirement for lecturers, writes Melanie Newman
Conference speech fuels OU row over compulsory retirement for lecturers, writes Melanie Newman

Journal Citations in 2007 to articles from 2005-06Impact factor for 2007Number of articles in 20071American Historical Review 8871.476242Environmental History2370.976283Journal of American...

Stop decrying the signal-to-noise ratio in online scholarly resources, says Tara Brabazon, and give open-source web journals your full support
If you are a UK academic, please give us your views on whether standards really are slipping...

Applications from would-be students are increasingly less likely to be seen by an academic as universities turn to new ways to sieve the burgeoning number of applications, writes Rebecca Attwood,...
Stiff competition for places in the US has led potential students to enlist the help of parents and consultants to give their application an edge. Jon Marcus looks at how institutions are trying to...
Students are increasingly 'transliterate', communicating across a range of technologies. Can academics keep up? Hannah Fearn asks

Tom Palaima admires a new take on Caesar - the man, the general and the daring politician
Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs on virtually every page, and with 25 colour plates, this is a work of ingenious, provocative scholarship based on hitherto unused sources: Talmudic...
D'Souza's fascinating study of what Cézanne did to the female nude on the cusp of the modernist century is a book about reading readings. It is a rigorous attempt to pierce, by critical reading, what...
Isabelle Szmigin enjoys a romp through famous advertising slogans from the 1960s to the 1990s
The social impact of new media and technology is often the focus of controversy and debate. So what is the consequence of the internet and the mobile telephone on our way of life? Some suggest that...
Many critical observers would agree that democracies are experiencing the growth of a "culture of control", that they are creating "exclusive societies" and that they are multiplying attempts to "...
1. Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development by Robert H. Bates. W.W. Norton, £15.99. ISBN 97803939740102. Politics in the Developing World, Second Edition edited by Peter Burnell...