The weary H.E. world of Gloria Monday
Forget the fantasies of dreaming spires and eager young minds. Gloria Monday’s academic world is one of sick buildings, indifferent students and endless bureaucracy
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A takeaway delivery
Reducing numbers of arts postgrads was bad enough, but the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s cuts in grants and funding are the final straw for Simon Blackburn
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Liverpool Hope University
David Weir has joined as professor of intercultural management. Rosie Sage has been appointed professor of communication in education; previously she was director of studies in the Centre for Raising...
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Supporting care-leavers in higher education
Proper support for care-leavers in higher education, and encouragement for children in case to consider university, is essential
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Corrections
In last week's feature on university access, "Reaching out but still falling short", the University of Northampton was incorrectly named as an institution that the Office for Fair Access said it had...
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Music at the Limits
Pick up an English-language newspaper in search of music criticism and you will find terse, clipped accounts of concerts, CDs and DVDs (far more pop than classical). Such reviews may well be...
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Educational Resource Management: An International Perspective
Derek Glover and Rosalind Levacic have produced a practical work of reference that rather ambitiously endeavours to mesh the technical with the general and to make all of it accessible to non-experts...
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Book of the week: My Unwritten Books
Fred Inglis on a fierce, foolish, joyous wishlist.
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The week in books
Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generationby David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire, in Paris. Harvard University Press, £12.95, ISBN 9780674026254"The book is less a technical tool than...
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Between Iraq and a hard place
In an otherwise usefully myth-debunking work on risk management in an age of war, Bill Durodié looks in vain for an admission that debate on the invasion must go beyond cost-benefit analysis.
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Censoring the body
Both these publications belong to a series based on a very elastic - some would say sloppy - interpretation of what "censorship" is. The titles are misleading. Edward Lucie-Smith's contribution is...
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Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History
Plagues and pestilence fascinate. That is why many books for the general reader have been written about them.Some works use disease metaphorically, such as The Plague by Albert Camus and Thomas Mann'...
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT• Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family BusinessesBy David Landes, professor emeritus of history and economics, Harvard UniversityPenguin, £9.99. ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 31 January 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a black satirical comedy on the media:"It's hot as hell in Martirio, but the papers on the porch are...