Let's get research basics right 2
The research assessment exercise has taken a few steps forward and a few steps back, ("All work to be counted in RAE evaluation", October 12). In evaluating and rewarding the research performance of...
The research assessment exercise has taken a few steps forward and a few steps back, ("All work to be counted in RAE evaluation", October 12). In evaluating and rewarding the research performance of...
The proposed system for measuring research output might work for the sciences. For the social sciences and humanities it would be a disaster. It would incentivise the proliferation of lower quality...
I have to say that I found Susan Bassnett's piece excruciatingly patronising. My first thought was that it's very obvious she isn't a scientist. She grumbles about "people who think it's outrageous...
You note that a minority of universities are employing union-busting firms to undermine the University and College Union in their institutions. It might be interesting to know who is paying for these...
Does Freudian theory, and in particular the Oedipus complex as a way of explaining sexual development, still have anything to teach us? Matthew Reisz, below, explores a reinvestigation of Freud's...
It's been a busy few weeks in the run-up to the new university year. First, let's drop in again on Dr Dai Llemmer's v-c helpline to test the pulse of the nation's academic leaders, before turning to...
Despite receiving proper support during his course, when it came to the degree ceremony, one young man found himself discriminated against. Martin Crick reports on a case with lessons for all...
The Faces of Terrorism - Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism
Endless Universe
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an imperial tale: "The Spanish army and the court lay in Andalusia, at Santa Fe, a new white...
Politics and the People
Suffer and Survive
Marcus Aurelius in Love
The Bush Administration
One of the fathers of HTML joins UWE to help train the web's next generation of developers and torch-bearers It is hard to imagine life without the internet, but there was a time when it was the...