THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
Gary Day on victims of the credit crisis, women on top, glamorous historians and a bit of Strictly escapism
Pictures of smiling girls clutching A grades belie the fact that they are still unrepresented in elite institutions, claims Miriam David
Attention all sixth-formers: worried about securing a university place? How about a period of volunteering during which you can learn new skills, help the community and gain a financial fillip before...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill cites Simon Singh case in legislative quest for ‘fairer balance between private reputation and public information’. Paul Jump reports
No we can't? Four decades of US dominance in the Gulf may be drawing to a close, says Philip Robins
• Top marks to zoology researchers at the University of Oxford for their canny PR. Finding a new species of crab on the ocean floor near Antarctica would not normally win newspaper column inches nor...
11 May: My academic post now seems lost for ever. I have been in contact with a solicitor, Debbie Smith, who specialises in employment law. She has been quite clear with me and has given me three...
Like it or not, impact is a fact of research life. Paul Manners suggests that many scholars do like it, and with good reason: portraying the dialectic between academic work and the wider world is...
14 April: Dominic did not check my last email to human resources and when he arrives home and reads it he is despairing. He feels I am too stressed and too emotionally involved to be able to write...
I am totally confused by what is happening. I am signed off sick by a concerned GP; I am suspended; I am taking out a grievance against my university; they are taking out a disciplinary action...
Malcolm Gillies on our duty to offer students ethical and intellectual models