Tara Brabazon: Forget the Spanx, leaders of tomorrow
The next generation to shape academia must eschew quick-fix shortcuts and generously nurture talent without envy, says Tara Brabazon
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UK urged to increase investment in higher education
Comparative figures from OECD report show UK lagging behind other developed nations. Phil Baty reports
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Conference boycott urged over ‘plagiarist’ chair
Appeal to academics to show disapproval of proven research misconduct by Croatian professor. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Richard who?
In a bid to bridge the generation gap between new students and academics, an American professor devised a list of cultural reference points on incoming students. Jon Marcus reports
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Twitter classes for aspiring journalists
A new course will teach media students how to break news via social networking sites, reports Jon Marcus in Chicago
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Manchester neuroscientist resigns
Annmarie Surprenant, the scholar accused of marking irregularities, stands down. Melanie Newman reports
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Birkbeck’s Kiwi flagship sinks
University says Centre for New Zealand Studies is unsustainable, despite £100,000 donation from NZ Government last year. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood
Philip Smallwood says this great philosopher's story is long overdue
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Reporting the World
The reporter Keith Kyle knew how to shape a good story, especially his own, says Alex Danchev
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The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
The American creative writing programme. Hardly are those words out when a vast image troubles our sight. Gone is the Shelley Circle and the Bloomsbury Group; gone the Jamesian high tea and Hemingway...
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The Canon. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life. Theodor Adorno
What might Theodor Adorno have said about Michael Jackson? Frank Zappa claimed that rock music writing was produced by people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, to provide articles...
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Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television
Sci-fi's visions of what is to come tell us much about present preoccupations, writes John Gilbey
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Fresh: A Perishable History
Food has always been a (in some ways the) central concern of mankind, but of late it has received unprecedented press: from a spate of books on "proper eating" to celebrity chefs moving beyond...
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Frankenstein: Icon of Modern Culture
It may be impossible today to envisage Victor Frankenstein's Monster without invoking the grotesque that Boris Karloff created in the corny but influential 1931 cinema adaptation, one of the first of...
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Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
Roger Brown enjoys a timely text that shows we cannot afford to starve the academy of funds