Gloria Monday: I should never have taken over the life of Brian
Now that her manager has retired, Gloria is left to pick up the pieces
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‘Energy therapy’ project in school denounced as ‘psychobabble’
EmoTrance and other psychotherapeutic schemes must be evaluated scientifically, scholars say. Melanie Newman reports
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The insecure scholar: Coming clean
When do you reveal personal reasons behind career choices?
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Academic made ‘untrue’ declaration about ‘full access’ to research material, GMC finds
Lead author who had not seen all of Procter & Gamble’s raw data about osteoporosis drug was ‘negligent’ but not ‘deliberately dishonest’. Phil Baty reports
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Opinion: It’s showtime on campus
Stage experience is vital for budding performers, says Luke Scott, who enthuses his students with a hands-on approach
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Lord Browne to lead fees review
David Eastwood and Julia King join panel considering the future of student support. John Gill reports
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'There’s no better job'
It pays to be an academic during a recession, says Jon Marcus
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Scientific advisers demand fresh start with Government
Great and good unveil principles to guide relationship between the state and scientific advice in the aftermath of the Nutt affair. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Opinion: Any education, so long as it’s training
Labour’s student-as-customer framework reduces the academy to a glorified apprenticeship system and leaves Donald Braben praying for a predictable future
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Book of the week: The Question of Morale
How can the academy get over its gloom? Just grow up, Gail Kinman hears
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1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
Gareth Dale learns how the old world order slipped on the cloak of the new after the wall came down
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Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism
Within a week of the Twin Towers falling I saw, at a sparsely attended cinema, the beautiful future-set AI: Artificial Intelligence. Late in the film, its frail robotic heroes approach a flooded and...
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The Canon. Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick
"Return to your garret in Oxford. Sadly I do not think that I can be of great help to you, but I am sure that you are on the right lines." It was with these words that Professor J.J. Scarisbrick said...
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The Cult of St George in Medieval England
Robert Bartlett is intrigued by how England came to embrace a fictional character as its patron saint
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Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
Ask a dozen people at random to describe what science fiction is and you will probably get a dozen different answers. Start a discussion with those 12 people about what, if anything, science fiction...