This is a book about the delight of art and the art of delight. It traffics in "imaginancies", to use the term David Cast borrows from Inigo Jones after Baldassare Castiglione (appropriation being an...
Dramatic insight into Hefce's plans for revising the impact score in the forthcoming research excellence framework have been given to The Poppletonian by an "inside source".Speaking "off the record"...
Simplify grant applications and release time for teaching, says Tim Birkhead
Hefce should 'normalise' results in the REF, an eminent scientist recommends. Zoë Corbyn reports
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If climate research is seen as 'tribal' and unable to bear scrutiny, the whole scientific edifice is weakened
It is often said that people who are troubled by prejudice should not teach in South Korea, because discrimination afflicts all levels of education there.What seems certain is that South Korean...
A historian who transformed our understanding of wartime France has died.Nicholas Atkin was born in Lincolnshire on 18 September 1960 and studied at the local grammar school before obtaining a degree...
It is certainly true that there is a "Global revolution" in private provision (26 November), notably in Central and Eastern Europe. As someone who has planned, managed and is now chairing the...
A critical component of UK government policy towards private providers of higher education must be to ensure that boards of directors (and the shareholders who appoint them) have no say in academic...
If Sally Hunt's article "The worst of all worlds" (3 December) and the University and College Union petition were my only sources of information about the research excellence framework, I'd want to...
In the powerful revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre, one word between Brick and Big Daddy signals the turning point in the drama: "mendacity".Throughout the 3 December issue of...
Dave Delpy "reminds us that research is ultimately about offering solutions to society's challenges" ("They're not unreasonable", 26 November). Odd, that; I've spent my research career thinking I was...
Aldwyn Cooper intones the familiar - and boring - jeremiad that to suppose that "a first-class degree from one (institution) has the same value as from another ... is absurd" ("It's time to set fees...
Some of the views expressed by commentators in your article on the University of Oxford/National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship's Entrepreneurial University Leadership Programme constitute a...