Universal exams can fix the grade inflation crisis
With the prestige of first-class honours degrees diminished, intellectually testing national examinations are needed to identify academic high-flyers, argues Lincoln Allison
With the prestige of first-class honours degrees diminished, intellectually testing national examinations are needed to identify academic high-flyers, argues Lincoln Allison
International students, post-study work visas and opinion pieces captured readers’ attention this year
With academics feeling the strain from higher workloads, the days when scholars had time to write novels or run businesses seem increasingly distant. Lincoln Allison suggests that universities have...
As several UK universities outlaw sex between academics and students, two writers offer differing views on the Office for Students’ proposed ban
Alliances with university colleagues can be inspiring and life-affirming but may also be grounded in little more than ambition or survival instinct. Six writers reflect on the joys and challenges of...
As undergraduate numbers soar and student needs become increasingly complex, questions are being asked about whether a support model that relies on the conscientiousness of individual academics is...
Lincoln Allison argues that it is becoming harder for academics to share controversial ideas
All academics have had that anxiety dream about standing up to give a lecture, only to realise they have forgotten to prepare anything – or to put on any clothes. But real teaching failures are...
Gavin Reddin’s long business career allows him to supplement academic models with myriad real-life exceptions to the rules
Lincoln Allison is not wholly convinced by an analysis of the forces that shape history
Lincoln Allison enjoys an overview of the great political thinkers very different from the kind he grew up with
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Lincoln Allison enjoys a broad, sometimes speculative account of the mania for written constitutions that took hold in the 1750s
Blindness gave the late politics professor Roger Williams a unique ability to focus on the structure and coherence of what was being said to him. And though his interrogations could be exacting,...
Our regular look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers