A homosexual is not a homosexual is not a homosexual: the idea of a homosexual - once useful - is now profoundly unhelpful. The study of lesbian and gay lives in all their richness and pluralities...
1 Road to Success: A Career Manual by Alexander R. Margulis Academic Press, £18.99 ISBN 97801237058782 Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta Oxford University Press, £6.99 ISBN...
Philip Kemp enjoys a serious exploration of the cinematic epic
Admirals: The Naval Commanders who Made Britain Great by Andrew Lambert, Laughton professor of naval history, King's College London. Faber and Faber, £20.00, ISBN 9780571231560"Nelson stands far...
GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESUrban Regeneration in the UK: Theory and PracticeBy Phil Jones, lecturer in human geography, University of Birmingham, and James Evans, lecturer in geography,...
What to do when your higher education system receives poor ratings in the two international league tables of note, the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings and that of Shanghai Jiao...
The great evolution versus intelligent design debate surfaced on our campus last week following the publication of the vice-chancellor's letter to new students. In his letter, the v-c repeatedly...
Sally Feldman has spotted a new breed of troublemaker appearing on campus
£36 million is being offered to fund three new cross-discipline digital research 'hubs'. Chloe Stothart reports
A refusal to visit a barber was a badge of defiance for Sixties youth, but Simon Goldhill, an academic with a beard, warns that in adult life anxieties over the boundary between public and pubic can...
It is right for universities to co-operate with business, but not to cater to a demand for out-of-the-box employees
Chris Curtis, an internationally renowned medical entomologist who pioneered new ways of combating malaria and other tropical diseases, has died.Born in Oxshott, Surrey, on 25 September 1939, he...
Your Big Marking Experiment ("Judgment calls", 18 September) notwithstanding, its comforting conclusion that academics across institutions mark similarly was, of course, flawed in one important...
Your leader ("A case of considered judgment", 18 September) expresses surprise that nine out of ten markers of a first-year philosophy essay awarded a score of between 53 and 66, and found comfort in...
A bigger problem than the variability of marking is that universities are almost wholly ignorant of its extent and sources. I find as an external examiner in many universities that there is little...