Employees will need to take time off from work from time to time for a variety of different reasons, other than planned annual leave. In a previous article we considered time off for public duties;...
As deputy head of department, Gloria Monday finds herself in the unenviable position of looking for ways to cut costs
Bosses want work-ready recruits, but academics argue that they may end up less happy than before if universities cultivate skills, not intellect, writes Hannah Fearn
Academia's worst snobberies may be dying out, but an accent on class still lingers, finds Matthew Reisz
We should teach PhD students how to balance the conflicting demands of scholarship and dissemination, says Peter Barry
Cut out for work - Have we sacrificed learning for earning?
Fred Halliday examines the broad historical issues of a Dutch society in crisis
This book is not so much about how Kurds imagine their nation and construct their identities as members of it, but more about how the nation-states where Kurds live mould the national identities to...
1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Faber, £8.99 ISBN 97805710818202. The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar edited by John Ross Methuen Drama, £6.99 ISBN 97807136334983. Ward...
Markets and governments should not be viewed as opposing forces, explains Natalie Gold
In Mark Rowlands' polemical and problematic philosophical exploration of fame, he blames the moral malaise of the present on celebrity culture. Rowlands terms this degenerate version of...
The magnitude of Winston Churchill's political career, with its numerous twists and turns, continues to baffle the efforts of biographers. The official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, buried him...
The Middle Ages were dark, bloody and brutal, discovers John Arnold
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett, chair of languages, literatures and cultures, Illinois State University. Profile Books, £15.00, ISBN...
Roy Harris is unconvinced by a muddled treatise on the abstractions of 'God' and 'Mind'