Deconstructive dismissal
Introductory courses in literary theory are failing to inspire students to produce new and exciting readings of texts and a growing number of critics want it abolished for first-year English students...
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Unsatisfying textual encounters
Robert Waugh concludes that literary theory leaves many students with more thinking and reading than they can digest and a huge gap between their critical beliefs and their critical performance. My...
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Spiritual settlement
Glasgow University apparently believes the only way of settling the pay dispute is to appeal to a higher power. The stop press in its staff newsletter announces that ACAS is set to "to meditate''.
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Oxbridge twist
There is doubtless a good reason for it, but we cannot help being a little bit surprised that the new Cambridge Journal of Economics is to be published by the Oxford University Press.
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Dear Maureen
Believe it or not, there really is at least one departmental secretary at an English university (don't tell anyone, but it's UCE) called Maureen I
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY I have not been to Belgrade for 40 years and now the demonstrations against the declared outcome of municipal elections in Serbia are all over the news. I was expecting to be met at the...
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California scheming
Back in November the affirmative action initiative that ended racial and gender set-asides (where not in conflict with federal law) was approved by California's voters, although by a much smaller...
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This leaflet is good for your legal health
This month I shall be sending a leaflet to hundreds of Association of University Teachers members which will vitally affect their future. You will know it if you see it. It has a red warning triangle...
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Province pays for breakdown
Higher education in Northern Ireland, already heavily underfunded, is paying the price for the collapse of the peace process. The province's two universities and its colleges are suffering in the...
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Stoke college pair sacked
The director of a college rocked by allegations of bullying and financial mismanagement has been sacked. Neil Preston, director of Stoke-on-Trent College, and Helen Chandler, director of marketing,...
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Riding hoods: students at Kidderminster College in Worcestershire
(Photograph) - Students at Kidderminster College in Worcestershire perform the pantomime Red Riding and the Seven Hoods, which incorporates a forest commune and Chicago gangland. The panto was...
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Court threat to plagiarists
INTERNATIONAL publishers are threatening legal action to try to stamp out plagiarism by Italian academics and authors. Although common knowledge in Italy, the size of the breach of copyright problem...
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Highlands project soaks up FE earmarked cash
The Association of Scottish Colleges has reacted angrily to finding that more than half of the anticipated further education budget increase has been earmarked for the University of the Highlands and...
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Dundee confirms course cut
Dundee University's court has backed a senate decision to axe undergraduate teaching in education despite strong lobbying by students. The popular joint MA course in educational studies was launched...
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Leicester's alliance policy
ENGLISH: DE MONTFORT 1992 rating: 1 1996 rating: 3b After the last research assessment exercise, Leicester's De Montfort University received the largest amount of research funding of any new...