Tara Brabazon: The best of places to share uncomfortable words
Truly independent alternative bookshops serve students, academics and society by offering an outlet for risky and challenging titles, says Tara Brabazon
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Five the hard way
Union accuses Cardiff of heavy-handed tactics over redundancies. Hannah Fearn reports
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Monoglottal stop
Arresting the decline of foreign language learning in the UK is vital to business competitiveness and young people’s development, argue David Lammy and Diana Johnson
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Sir D’Arcy networks from beyond the grave
Facebook friends flock to a 150-year-old Scottish polymath, reports Sarah Cunnane
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Opinion: Positive, but hardly logical
Simon Blackburn reads between the lines of Hefce’s missive concerning the academy’s ‘support’ for impact
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All together now
Lancaster University pioneers ‘inclusive curriculum’ to cater for entire student body via course content, delivery and assessment. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: Beauty and Education
A paean to teaching's role in the good society wins Fred Inglis' heart
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Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered
The dismantling of Iraqi intellectual life may have been a deliberate strategy, Roger Matthews learns
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Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
One question that does not seem to exercise the minds of many academics in the UK these days - although maybe it should - is whether universities should teach their students morality. In any case, it...
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The Canon: On Writing Well. By William Zinsser
Verbiage, cliche and clutter are the enemies of good writing. And in this age of social networking sites, instant messaging and email, a book published in 1976 about the art and craft of writing...
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The Little Book of String Theory
Simple analogies put a complex subject well within the layman's reach, discovers Elias Kiritsis
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Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps
This book derives from a Canadian research initiative called The Education-Job Requirement Matching Research Project. The study's overall aim was to bring forward research into the relationship...
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Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin
This is a depressing book. Not because it's badly written or ill-organised - quite the reverse - but because it records, in often numbing detail, how one of the most vibrant cinematic cultures of the...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867-1896Edited by Jason Edwards, reader in art history, University of York, and Imogen Hart, postdoctoral research associate, Yale...
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Imperial College London - Reach out to young Einsteins
Universities have been urged to do more to help schoolchildren experience scientific experiments at first hand to inspire them to study the subject. Lord Winston, professor of science and society at...