The Pick - After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment
Credit: Patience (After Sebald)/Grant GeeAfter Sebald: Place and Re-EnchantmentAldeburgh, SuffolkThey sound like an unlikely coupling.W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), for many years professor of European...
Search
-
-
Our vice-chancellor's on the job - official
"Not our vice-chancellor." That was the forthright response of Ted Odgers to the assertion by Tim Wilson, the outgoing vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, that "a vice-chancellor's...
-
What happens in Vegas
...is cheer and courtesy, says Sally Feldman, and we could do with a little here
-
Leader: This really calls for an inside job
In good times and bad, scholars remain the best people to keep universities, and those within them, on their missions
-
Research intelligence - Slow train coming
The sciences may be embracing open access, but the humanities remain cool to the idea. Paul Jump investigates
-
What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
The Wal-Mart ethos attracts few buyers among US lecturers
Staff chafe but administrators press on with efforts to instil consumer focus. Jon Marcus writes
-
The Week in Higher Education
He may be known as "Two Brains", but universities minister David Willetts has always relied on four eyes - until now. Mr Willetts has shed his spectacles thanks to laser eye surgery and on 20 January...
-
From where I sit - Where passion trumps technology
With the new academic year in Australia set to start in a few weeks, I am savouring a time of quiet contemplation before the madness begins. Naturally, I think about fresh strategies for teaching...
-
Arguments over space
A tumultuous exhibition places debates about sculpture's position and possibilities in sharp relief, finds Alex Danchev
-
David Bradby, 1942-2011
David Bradby was an "incredibly ethical" scholar with a "dry wit" who spent his academic career working to promote the study of non-English theatre.He was born on February 1942 and studied modern...
-
Irreconcilable differences
Demand-led funding and growing state regulation may leave the Australian system with the worst of all worlds, says Steven Schwartz
-
Oh yes it is: red scare is pure pantomime (1 of 2)
The University and College Union's national executive committee (NEC) recently confirmed that it is about to conduct five separate ballots in higher and further education institutions over jobs,...
-
Oh yes it is: red scare is pure pantomime (2 of 2)
As the UCU has pointed out, higher education in the UK has recently been beset by a series of problematic developments and it is now considering industrial action. One of the actions taken (or indeed...
-
Dread dress rehearsal
Alastair Hudson suggests that police kettling is explicable as a "massive and premeditated overreaction" designed to provoke violence by raising the tension in enclosed spaces, hence focusing media...