Shakespeare as you'll like it
Dale Salwak explains how he removes the obstacles that prevent his students connecting with the greatest writer in the English language, allowing them to fall under the Bard's spell
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Film review: Biutiful
Philip Dodd finds Javier Bardem the pivotal centre of a film about our inescapable mortality
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TV review: Hattie
Was Hattie Jacques' passion for her driver simply a response to her own self-loathing, asks Gary Day
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Odds and quads
This wedding dress and these accessories, made entirely of glass fibre, were worn by Helen Nairn Munro on the day she married W.E.S. Turner in 1943.
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27 January 2011
Primus inter pares - Academics must coax more of their own into leadership roles
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Tara Brabazon: Networking opportunities
Now is a fertile time to be conducting research among the proliferating forms of social media, writes Tara Brabazon
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Inside Higher Ed: Turning on the faculty
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
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Aberystwyth names new head
Aberystwyth University has named its new vice-chancellor.
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Graduate employers may cast net wider for recruits
Employers believe a rise in university tuition fees will result in a less diverse pool of graduates, a survey of some of the biggest graduate employers in the UK has found.
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Climategate inquiries criticised
The University of East Anglia’s Climategate inquiries were not sufficiently transparent and failed to properly investigate some key issues, the Commons Science and Technology Committee has concluded.
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A model of good practice
I went in to the lion’s den last week, accepting an invitation to join a British Academy policy forum titled “League Tables in the Public Sector”.Among 30 leading social scientists and policymakers...
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Allocation delays leave teacher training in limbo
Delays to the announcement of initial teacher-training funding allocations may lead to some courses being undersubscribed, an academic has warned.
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Spanish statecraft, the scholarly way
“I had not previously had any contact with politicians,” said Philip Pettit, the Irish-born Laurance S. Rockefeller university professor of politics and human values at Princeton University, “and...
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THE Prize Draw
To celebrate the launch of our new THE app and digital edition we are giving away an iPad.All current subscribers to THE and all those who take out a THE subscription between 21 January and 14...
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Trustees order revisions to employers’ pension reforms
The trustees of higher education’s biggest pension scheme have ordered changes to the employers’ plans for reform – but the University and College Union will press ahead with a strike ballot.