The Government's former director-general for higher education has been made chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sir Alan Wilson, professor of urban and regional systems at...
It may be time for the Government to start praying for divine intervention. As opposition mounts to the decision to scrap state funding for students taking second degrees at an equivalent or lower...
A welcome redistribution of wealth from rich to poorer universities, or a hindrance to excellence - new funding arrangements for so-called third stream activities have split opinion. Bill Rammell,...
The Society for Research into Higher Education conference looked at reluctance to lead and opaque aid schemes. John Gill reports. MANAGEMENT ROLES SHUNNED Academics are avoiding managerial positions...
Competing in a global market leaves no room for sentiment and little for tradition - and Malcolm McVicar believes that his title, vice- chancellor, is causing confusion. Although the title is common...
How the Medical Research Council's will pay for its contribution to a new £500 million super-laboratory in central London was questioned this week when it was confirmed that the Treasury is to take £...
Social science theories are rooted in Europe and the US, ignoring other cultures' social thought, says Raewyn Connell. What do Milton Friedman, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas,...
I was disappointed to see my union buying into the idea that academic work is all about research and that teaching is a second-order activity that requires no expert knowledge in one's subject area...
Greg Garrard (Letters, December 7) accuses us of being passe in terms of our use of "topsy-turvy" Marxist social and educational theory. Although we differ on a number of substantive points connected...
Greenwich University has appointed Joanne Finkelstein, formerly at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, to the post of head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. David Clarke,...
Enjoying your pheasant, Roger? Mother, it's absolutely delicious. Really scrumptious. I'm particularly enjoying the garlic and the taste of juniper. Oh good. I hoped you'd like it. And what can I say...
Many religious believers do express their faith in the intolerant ways Sally Feldman illustrates (Columnist, December 14), but when she summarises that “all too often it’s religion that contradicts...
'All predictions about the future have to be based on the past, so historians are best qualified to make them'. "That was a really depressing lecture, professor," said one of my students as we...
Critics say a US company charging £1,500 per participant for Oxford- based conferences is trading on the institution's name. Melanie Newman reports. A conference organiser has been criticised for...
Hot on the heels of the National Student Survey comes another weighty document. This time the students surveyed are from outside the UK and hail from Europe and the rest of the world. The...