28 May 2009
Step up to the mike - The decline of the public intellectual voice leaves a dangerous void
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Medical charities plan cuts to funding
Survey shows that some plan to slash research budgets by up to 40 per cent. Zoƫ Corbyn reports
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Concern over shrinking numbers of UK recruits to psychiatry
Royal college cites doctorsā ānegative attitudesā to subject in highlighting dearth of entrants. Hannah Fearn reports
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Gloria Monday: A generation betrayed
Outrage over MPsā expenses will be as nothing to the howls unleashed when people learn that āeducation, education, educationā was a false promise, says Gloria Monday
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Bullied Blogger: Have a nice dayā¦ your P45 is in the post
I decide to get a courier service to collect my things from the university. 17 boxes. They are all delivered in NICEDAY packaging. āHave a nice day,ā says the courier. āI will, thank you,ā I reply. I...
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No one knows what a degree is worth, says Guild of Educators
Problems with āconsistency and interpretationā mean it may be time to ābust openā classification. Hannah Fearn writes
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Promised London Met inquiry revealed to be Hefce exercise
MPs demand apology from Lammy as they learn there will be no new scrutiny of London Met crisis. Melanie Newman reports
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Government announces inquiry into London Met crisis
MPs allege that Hefce colluded with university over inaccurate data. Melanie Newman reports
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The Light/Dark Universe
When one looks up at the night sky, many questions are evoked: why do stars twinkle? Why does the moon have so many phases? How many stars are there? Are we alone in the Universe?However, as non-...
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The Canon: The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama. By Lord Raglan
Lord Raglan (1885-1964) was a self-taught anthropologist and folklorist. For him, religion means ritual, not belief, but he brings together myth with ritual in his key book, The Hero (1936).The "myth...
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Book of the week: Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955
June Purvis welcomes a compelling tale of an overlooked feminist
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Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions under New Labour
An analysis of workers' alliances should engage more with workers themselves, says Sian Moore
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Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses
Once upon a time," complains Prince Lucio Rimanez in the best-selling of Victorian novels, Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1895), "it was considered the height of indelicacy and low breeding to...
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Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel
Whether or not "writing about music is like dancing about architecture. It's a stupid thing to do", as a quip often attributed to Elvis Costello would have it, the uses of music within fiction are...
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History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan
A. W. Purdue finds a study of a neglected area of the 20th century complex and penetrating