Bear facts about the Bard 1
Your annual feature on exam howlers ("The French Resistance made good use of the internet, you know", August) reminded me how keenly students of Shakespeare have illuminated plays I thought I knew...
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Bear facts about the Bard 2
In regards to your article on exam bloopers, I must share one of my favourites. It also relates to the quoted passage from Hobbes' Leviathan. However, on this exam the student declared that "life in...
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1984: It's coming
In the 25 years since the iconic film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopia, US society has crept ever closer to its bleak vision of paranoia, surveillance, perpetual war and unthinkingness, fears...
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Winning the war of independence
The contrast between British and American higher education is nowhere more apparent than in the levels of scholarly freedom enjoyed by academics on opposite sides of the pond. Here, Paul A. Taylor...
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Freedom eclipsed by danger
David J. Gunkel applauds diversity, equality and protection of tenure at US colleges, but despairs at legislation that allows guns in the classroom
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The small scientist
Almost by accident, 25 years ago Alec Jeffreys discovered DNA fingerprinting and revolutionised criminal profiling. He tells Zoë Corbyn that 'the unexpected is what science should deliver'
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3 September 2009
The place to be? - A head-to-head look at academic life and freedom in the US and the UK
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Sacked Muslim scholar to sue Dutch university
Decision to fire Tariq Ramadan for his work with Iranian-funded TV network was ‘political’, he claims. Melanie Newman reports
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Tweet yourself to a new circle
Twitter is not for exchanging trivia. Rather, as Russell Stannard has recently learnt, it’s a powerful networking tool for academics and institutions
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Union plans academic boycott of London Met
UCU threatens to ‘grey-list’ the institution unless it backs down on job cuts. Melanie Newman reports
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Quids out
Universities are reporting a major decline in donations, with the US worse hit than the UK
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Book of the week: Replenishing the Earth
Donald MacRaild admires a novel account of the rise of the Anglo-world
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Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction
Carolyn Lesjak navigates a meticulous reading of Victorian novels with verbal conflict at its heart
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The Rhetoric of Modernism: Le Corbusier as a Lecturer
Lectures played a very important role in Le Corbusier's strategy for converting people to the cause of his new architecture and for the acquisition of clients and other influential connections. They...
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The Canon: Theatres of Memory. Volume 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel
First published in 1994, Raphael Samuel's collection of loosely affiliated essays presents a compelling argument about the nature, purpose and value of historical knowledge and investigation. The...