Statistical certainty
It is not the case that institutions can choose not to supply the Higher Education Statistics Agency with data relating to academics excluded from their 2008 research assessment exercise submissions...
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Off the rails
"Network Rail is launching an MSc in project management" (Campus round-up, 3 April). Presumably the fees will help towards the fine for the project overrun at Christmas.Ian Lovecy, Bangor, Gwynedd.
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Adrift in dark waters
Academics aren't trained for it and often can't cope with it, yet many find themselves counselling students at risk of emotional breakdown and even suicide. Esther Oxford talks to lecturers who have...
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A measured relationship
League tables are used to gauge university performance, influence potential students and steer management policy, but should they be trusted? A survey suggests that many fall short of the mark,...
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Laying down the law
The advent of the UK's first private law school has reignited debate about whether a law course should comprise liberal education or commercial training. Hannah Fearn hears the case for and against
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10 April 2008
Emotionally overwhelmed - How lecturers cope with student despair
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Do GPs care whether their patients get back to work?
There was a flurry of activity at the Department of Health last month when the Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, announced plans to create a “well note” in place of a “sick note”. The aim was to get...
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Learning from Experience Trust
• Malcolm Barry, formerly of Goldsmiths College, London and London Metropolitan University, has been confirmed as the new director of the trust. The outgoing Director, Dr Michael Field, becomes a...
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First Impressions competition: April 3 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a magical tale of finding a female identity:“The summer she was fifteen, Melanie discovered she was...
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The Book of the Week: Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West
Tom Palaima on a long, bloody clash of cultures
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The Week in Books
The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations by Stephen Braude, professor of philosophy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. University of Chicago Press, £11.50, ISBN...
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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Steve Fuller on Deirdre McCloskey's ongoing struggle against economists' fetishisation of data
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The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry
The Selling Sound is a fascinating and wide-ranging account of the rise of the country music industry. This is not a dry economic discussion of an emerging section of the cultural industries, but a...
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Leadership: A Critical Text
It is refreshing when you come across a clear, well-written book about leadership that is not peddling the latest gimmick, buzzword or quick fix. What makes this work really refreshing is the...