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Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences, by Michael Billig
Sandra Leaton Gray on a must-read for academics and their students
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Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics, by Chad Lavin
Erika Cudworth discusses neoliberalism’s ‘digestive turn’
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Crash and Beyond: Causes and Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis, by Andrew Farlow
Victoria Bateman on the parallels and differences between 1929 and 2008
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A Tale of Seven Elements, by Eric Scerri
The international hunt for chemistry’s ‘missing links’ makes for an engrossing tale, finds Alan Rocke
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Mothers in Academia, edited by Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro
Female scholars talk candidly about their experiences of combining an academic career with child-rearing
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The world’s largest private education providers
The growing competition for UK universities from new types of education providers has been highlighted in a report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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Learning to profit: the world’s largest private education providers
The growing competition for UK universities from new types of education providers has been highlighted in a report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.It shows the world’s largest...
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Black studies centre aims to tackle academic whitewash
UEL body plans research into attainment and staffing gap
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No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, by Ruth R. Wisse
A Harvard scholar on what makes Jewish wisecracks distinctly Jewish
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A levels: remaking the grades
Will Michael Gove’s reform plans endanger the traditional values he seeks to promote? Jack Grove investigates
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Lack of guidance on foreign students’ use of proofreaders
Not all institutions have clear rules on international students employing translators and other help
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Getting it in the neck
Source: Alamy“You have to exploit your local assets.”That was how Nathan Prest, our Head of Student Recruitment, defended himself and his team from charges of “exploitation” after our university’s...
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Appointments - 15 August 2013
Cardiff UniversityRachel CowgillThe new head of the School of Music at Cardiff University said she was encouraged to learn that her appointment had the unanimous support of her colleagues. Rachel...
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Hold bad news about grades until after NSS
Institutions consider a ‘range of strategies’ to win favourable scores from students