Learning from the future
It's time to start exchanging gifts and sharing cultures with the digital natives who are our students, says Fintan Culwin
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The Gallic exception: it is time for a giraffe of a system to evolve
Developed along idiosyncratic lines since the age of Napoleon, France's universities must embrace globalisation, Zoe McKenzie says
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Top nations in engineering based on impact
Top nations in engineering based on impactRankCountry Papers CitationsCitations per paper1Denmark4,186 25,406 6.072 Switzerland9,711 57,980 5.973 Belgium8,358 43,289 5.184 Sweden9,948 50,148 5.045...
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The magic of face-to-face teaching
The spark of connection between lecturers and students cannot be duplicated, although digitisation has its place in preserving special, life-changing lectures
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Negotiating the termination of employment - when does the dismissal take effect?
It is not uncommon for an employer and an employee to agree to part company on mutually agreed terms.
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Grand designs but shaky foundations
Researcher-dominated schools of architecture are being blamed for a generation who don't know how to make buildings stand up. Hannah Fearn reports
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The bad news bearers
From Aids to climate change, scientists tackling global threats often struggle to balance accurate reporting with a commitment to drive governments to action. Matthew Reisz reports
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Oiling the learning machine
The huge expansion of higher education in the Gulf offers major opportunities for UK academe. But, as John Gill reports, there are also challenges
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21 August 2008
Well educated - How oil is fuelling a higher education revolution in the Gulf
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Transferring a service contract to two or more parties – who takes on the employees?
Diane Gilhooley, HR expert in the education team at Eversheds, offers advice on transferring a service contract to two or more parties
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Giving the past a shelf life
Pamela Robinson considers the post-Reformation book collectors whose choices spoke volumes
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Does Feminism Discriminate against Men? A Debate
It is tempting to dismiss this volume as part of the well-documented backlash against feminism, but that would be unfair to James Sterba, who argues that feminism has rightly challenged the various...
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Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight-Talk at Work
I don't usually venture along the shelves of self-help business manuals, but a book that makes claims to going beyond bullshit appealed. When you have been in senior university management as long as...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Reading
1. Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy edited by John CottinghamCambridge University Press, £9.99ISBN 97805215581812. Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction by Harry J. GenslerRoutledge, £17....
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Geography is not what it seems
Timothy Darvill looks at how cultural change over 10,000 years has altered the face of Europe