This could have been a good book but sadly it isn't. Yet it only just fails in its purpose and Robert Laughlin, the author, should be encouraged to research his thesis more deeply, because he is an...
Why write? The question is especially poignant for writers who fashion their words in a strange country and in a language not their own. Why write when you render yourself vulnerable to accusations...
Steve Edwards finds positives and negatives in the claim that photos are a key part of political culture
What is Cuban civil society like? This is a difficult question, and one that many scholars have attempted to unravel with little success. Efforts tend to range from, at one extreme, Cold War...
ART AND DESIGN- Railways and the Western European CapitalsBy Micheline Nilsen, assistant professor of art history, University of Indiana. Palgrave Macmillan, £45.00. ISBN 9780230607736Nilsen looks at...
According to an annual survey of executive compensation, the president of Boston's Suffolk University was paid $2.8 million (£1.89 million) last year, while the presidents of Northwestern University...
A cheering crowd gathered outside the main administrative block this morning as the news came through that our university had leapt 123 places up the research league table in this year's research...
Journals want 'no ifs and buts' research, but Tim Birkhead wants honesty
A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise. Laleh Khalili on two intimate, nourishing and, for female academics, often simultaneous acts: breastfeeding a child and...
RAE 2008 has proved that UK universities are dominant on the world stage, but the proportion of staff submitted is still an issue
L. Neville Brown, a leading figure in the study of comparative law, has died.He was born in Wolverhampton on 29 July 1923 and educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School from the age of eight, until...
I found it heartening to learn that student-centred teaching, rooted in the philosophy of Carl Rogers, is alive and well ("A matter of opinions", 11 December). Its value has always been contested...
Your article on student-centred learning is a familiar rerun of the arguments around free verse, free jazz or free anything else that challenges the perception held by Stanley Fish, author of Save...
I am intrigued by the photograph that illustrates this article. Please tell me which university provides offices big enough to get four whole students in and so much bookshelf space that at least one...
Brian Cantor is right - the research assessment exercise should have transparency and integrity ("How can we measure the quality of research without quantity data?", 11 December). It also needs to be...