29 May: I have had about a month without work. A little freelance work has come my way, but overall, the relief I’m experiencing after the bombardment from human resources and terrible distortions in...
Call to free universities from government control and maximise earnings. Melanie Newman reports
Vitae tells universities to help reduce the stress of juggling personal life, job and research. Zoë Corbyn reports
The academy is ageing and is not attracting a new generation of talent, according to figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
Maureen Skinner, like other delegates at the meeting of America’s university administrators, shared her troubles in song amid the talk of tough times
UCU says students’ union is encouraging ‘hate mail’ to lecturers. Melanie Newman reports
Anger over points-based system but legality of campaign of non-compliance questioned. Melanie Newman writes
1 Blackstone’s Statutes on Property Law 2008-2009 edited by Meryl Thomas Oxford University Press, £14.99 ISBN 97801992381252 Blackstone’s Statutes on Public Law and Human Rights 2008-2009 edited by...
Sian Moore finds an examination of the biased press coverage of the miners' strike instructive
As Jacalyn Duffin points out, it is rare to find a modern Western medical clinician studying the role of religion in medicine and healing. She addresses this taboo head-on in her analysis of records...
In 1960 a young American-Jewish historian published a monograph that revolutionised not only our current understanding of Jewish immigration to England a century ago, but also our approach to the...
History holds clues to coping with contemporary crises, but a rigorous approach is essential, says Margaret MacMillan. She talks to Matthew Reisz
Why did they do it? Frank Furedi on the erosion of civil rights in the post-9/11 US
The Wal-Mart story illustrates sea changes in US culture, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
There is a view reaching back to Plato that art produces second-rate knowledge. Howard Cannatella seeks to demonstrate that the mimetic approach found in art education embodies a more valuable form...