When the University of Wales, Lampeter chose a photograph of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg to illustrate a course leaflet, it probably did not envisage the brochure ever coming to the director’...
As universities strive to cast their RAE results in the best possible light and the media struggle to grasp the big picture, Nancy Rothwell argues that assessment will always help improve performance
The RAE and its ilk constrain academics, says Donald W. Braben, who invites institutions to emulate a UCL scheme that offers complete freedom to researchers pursuing groundbreaking discoveries
Amid the holiday season, we review some of the basic legal rights and obligations in relation to annual leave.
Institutions’ selectivity in submitting staff to research assessment exercise should be taken into account, says 1994 Group member
Chris McManus lauds an ethnographer's long hard look in the mirror
From Genocide to Continental War: The 'Congolese' Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa by Gerard Prunier, director, French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa. Hurst Books, £40.00,...
The world cannot sustain rampant consumerism, but Jules Pretty doesn't buy all the arguments
We live in an age of fear. We are confronted daily with headlines proclaiming the dangers of modern life, ranging from paedophilia to natural disasters, terrorism to disease. Lars Svendsen's short...
1. Managing Knowledge and Information in Organizations: A Literacy Approach by Alistair Mutch. Routledge, £26.99. ISBN 97804154172662. Essentials of 16PF Assessment by Heather E. Cattell. Wiley, £21....
Graham Farmelo admires the philosophy of a scientist who advocates cross-border research
When we think of culture in the Weimar Republic, we think of experiments in modern aesthetics: Dadaism, expressionism, Bauhaus architecture, "the new woman".Here, Corey Ross reminds us of what we...
Visitors to Seville mindful of Carmen still wend their way past the massive Royal Tobacco Factory, which was once capable of producing three quarters of the cigars smoked in Europe (and is now part...
Andrew Blake is not bothered by the eclectic examples but rather by an emphasis on privilege
Written for a wide audience of specialist and non-specialist readers, Axel Klein's book Drugs and the World is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the use and misuse of psychoactive...