First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an attack on socialism that was published during the Second World War: "Contemporary events differ...
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A better class of peasant altogether
An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages
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Cow country is rich only in numbers
Twenty-first Century India
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Visiting Professorships
Deadline: 31/12/2005
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Research Project Grants
Deadline: 23/11/2005
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Fellowships
Deadline: 15/12/2005
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Heineken Prizes
Deadline: 01/01/2006
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Tales of old staff and stale beer fall flat
Student feedback may be all the rage in this consumer-focused era but such strategies are not without risks, especially if they produce responses such as one undergraduate's call to "sack all...
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Millions wasted on tribunals
Universities are spending millions of pounds fighting litigious staff despite the fact that the number of higher education disputes going to employment tribunals is a fraction of those in other...
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'Multiculturalism is pernicious. It focuses on what separates people'
Michael Burleigh says the approach both reflects a lack of curiosity and promotes a culture of victimhood Former academic historian and self-described "Right Liberal" Michael Burleigh this week made...
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On the move ...
* Abertay Dundee University has appointed Lachlan MacKinnon as professor of information and knowledge engineering. He is a former reader in computer science and director of postgraduate study at the...
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Funding bosses blamed for rise in bureaucracy
Attempts to reduce the burden of red tape by funding chiefs are creating more paperwork for universities, the Government's red-tape buster, Dame Patricia Hodgson, told academic administrators this...
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Unions issue deadline on pay deal and promise early action
More than 100,000 academics could be called out on strike as early as January next year, as the lecturers' unions dig in for what could become a long and militant pay campaign. Lecturers' union...
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Return to roots for N8 chief
England's northern universities have recruited a big hitter from Cambridge University to head an alliance that aims to narrow the economic gap between North and South. David Secher, Cambridge's...
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Next week
E SUPPLEMENT E-mail overload and high-tech alternatives to those old telephone switchboards - plus much, much more