21 January 2010
Turn your frown upside down - As work conditions deteriorate, wellbeing schemes proliferate
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With top posts vacant, staff ask ‘why’ and ‘what next?’
Sudden loss of v-c and finance director has Manchester academics asking questions about the future. Hannah Fearn writes
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Opinion: The one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for higher education
Chris Higgins and Anthony Forster argue that we must stop expecting all universities to deliver on both research and teaching
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Politics makes a mockery of impact
‘Knowledge resistance’ undermines efforts to show influence of academic work, social scientist says. Melanie Newman reports
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The insecure scholar: A world of possibilities
Being given the opportunity to apply for jobs can make all the difference to one’s state of mind
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Teachers must be a class apart
Conservatives plan to make teaching a ‘brazenly elitist’ profession. Melanie Newman
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Cut ‘failed’ ex-poly humanities departments, says peer
Opinions divided in Lords debate on higher education budget cuts. Melanie Newman reports
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Nutt unveils independent alternative on drugs
Fourteen-strong committee to provide non-political scientific advice, ousted professor says. Zoë Corbyn reports
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We ‘just don’t like them’ is adequate reason to dismiss advisers, claims shadow science minister
At a science debate Adam Afriyie argued that governments were entitled to sack academic experts on any terms at all. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Firsts rise again
Percentage of students with top honours increases by 1 per centage point, Hesa statistics show. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education
Rick Trainor discovers a critique of relevance on both sides of the pond
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The Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain
Jerome de Groot finds television's depiction of the First World War is put into clear focus
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The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society
The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual - its authors call it a pamphlet - may well come to be regarded as the most important work to emerge from America's social sciences so far this millennium. It was...
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The Canon: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. By Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann (1921-80) was a Lutheran of Jewish descent who converted to Judaism. Fleeing Nazi Germany for America, he became professor of philosophy at Princeton University after active service...
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The Tunguska Mystery
Alan Gilmore is doubtful of a study that ignores credible science and focuses on the unknown