The perfect brainstorm
Are the institutes of advanced study being set up across the UK simply research hotels where academics can enjoy precious thinking time or evidence of a fundamental shift in cutting-edge research?...
Search
-
-
Familiar text, new chapter
Textbooks are hard to write, the rewards are few and e-books are at last coming of age. So what's the future for these essential companions, asks Matthew Reisz
-
Faith no more
Geza Vermes, author of Jesus the Jew, is yet again turning his formidable forensic skills on his former Christian religion, this time in the shape of the Resurrection. Matthew Reisz meets him to...
-
20 March 2008
Two heads better than one - What academics can learn from other disciplines
-
The week in higher education
l l l The widespread media coverage of Lord Goldsmith’s report on how to enhance “citizenship” in the UK focused on the controversial – indeed, the widely ridiculed – idea that school-leavers should...
-
‘Frustrated’ learned societies plan a united front to get AHRC’s attention
Learned societies and subject associations in the arts and humanities are setting up a “rapid response group” to make their voices heard amid growing frustration over a number of controversial plans...
-
Published this week
Biological sciencesBarrel CortexBy Kevin Fox, professor of biosciences, Cardiff University Cambridge University Press, £75.00 ISBN 9780521852173 Fox explores three main aspects of the barrel cortex...
-
Aston-University
• Geoff Tansley of the School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a UK/India Education and Research Initiative grant of £81,000 for research on a total artificial heart. • Roslyn Bill,...
-
University of Reading and Imperial College London
Sir Brian Hoskins, a Royal Society research professor is among the first five members of the independent Committee on Climate Change being set up by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural...
-
Cults of personality and the name game
The Great Leader is all smiles on the website – Gloria Monday suspects that a rebranding is in the offing
-
Preventing illegal working: new rules
Changes to the rules on preventing illegal working were brought in with effect from 29 February 2008. These changes are part of the Government’s overhaul of the UK immigration system and a crackdown...
-
Peer observation
A practice that involves developing and sharing teaching methods and styles that will benefit both the observer and the observed.
-
Correction
We incorrectly referred to University College Plymouth St Mark & St John as simply University College Plymouth ("'Academic hub' to focus on creative skills training", 28 February). Our apologies.
-
First Impressions competition: March 13 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Pulitzer Prize-winning celebration of the human spirit:"In Haddam, summer floats over tree-softened...
-
The Book of the Week: Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
Robert Matthews on a parody with a purpose