Sector needs young blood to combat ageing profile
The academy is ageing and is not attracting a new generation of talent, according to figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
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Confessions of a conference junkie
Maureen Skinner, like other delegates at the meeting of America’s university administrators, shared her troubles in song amid the talk of tough times
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Academics ‘distressed’ by anonymous student feedback
UCU says students’ union is encouraging ‘hate mail’ to lecturers. Melanie Newman reports
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Delegates split over boycott of immigration rules
Anger over points-based system but legality of campaign of non-compliance questioned. Melanie Newman writes
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Newcastle
1 Blackstone’s Statutes on Property Law 2008-2009 edited by Meryl Thomas Oxford University Press, £14.99 ISBN 97801992381252 Blackstone’s Statutes on Public Law and Human Rights 2008-2009 edited by...
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Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath
Sian Moore finds an examination of the biased press coverage of the miners' strike instructive
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Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World
As Jacalyn Duffin points out, it is rare to find a modern Western medical clinician studying the role of religion in medicine and healing. She addresses this taboo head-on in her analysis of records...
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The Canon: The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870-1914. By Lloyd P. Gartner
In 1960 a young American-Jewish historian published a monograph that revolutionised not only our current understanding of Jewish immigration to England a century ago, but also our approach to the...
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Through the myths of time
History holds clues to coping with contemporary crises, but a rigorous approach is essential, says Margaret MacMillan. She talks to Matthew Reisz
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Book of the week: Our Nation Unhinged
Why did they do it? Frank Furedi on the erosion of civil rights in the post-9/11 US
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To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
The Wal-Mart story illustrates sea changes in US culture, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
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The Richness of Art Education
There is a view reaching back to Plato that art produces second-rate knowledge. Howard Cannatella seeks to demonstrate that the mimetic approach found in art education embodies a more valuable form...
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The Other Within: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity
It is likely that anyone familiar with Spanish, Portuguese or Jewish history will have come across the case of the Marranos or Conversos, Iberian Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism under...
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Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
The story of how genetic profiling revolutionised forensic science enthrals Charalambos P. Kyriacou
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The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics
"We love death the way you love life." These words uttered by Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London suicide bombers, in a video issued on the first anniversary of the attacks on the city's transport...