THE Scholarly Web - 30 January 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Who got that job? Lesley Lowes on becoming chair of clinical nursing practice at Cardiff University. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

As a University of Cambridge graduate in June 2012 at the ripe old age of 64, I, too, take great exception to Jeremy Paxman’s harrumphing and growling at the mature students on University Challenge (...
I was disappointed to read that the rise in the complexity and number of complaints and academic appeals relating to students’ marks is being reported as a result of the rise in tuition fees (“Marked...
Re: Patricia Smyth’s letter “High and arbitrary fees” (23 January) about the British Museum’s practice of charging steep fees for the use of images it holds.We have experienced this in relation to...
IÂ am concerned to learn that the plans to reduce the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills budget may require a significant reduction in the student opportunity fund.Many institutions use...
As any good undergraduate journalism or public relations student knows, there are lies, damn lies and statistics.The article “Booms and busts follow in the wake of big bang” (23 January) on full-time...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

“It’s only five new chairs. Only one more than the University of York.”That was how Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, responded to suggestions from reporter Keith Ponting (30)...

Laura Frost on a portrayal of abstinence not as an absence of sex, but as an organisation of pleasure

Anna Hickey-Moody on study of how performers have addressed disability in their compositions and performances

Tristan Bekinschtein welcomes a work showing that research into who we are can be based on science

Barbara Graziosi discovers what went on in the bedroom in ancient Greece

Gregory Kent explores the affective consequences of war