Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Leeds
1. Human Resource Management: A Contemporary Approach by Tim Claydon and Julie Beardwell Pearson Education, £44.99 ISBN 978037076392. Working with Vulnerable Adults by Bridget Penhale and Jonathan...
1. Human Resource Management: A Contemporary Approach by Tim Claydon and Julie Beardwell Pearson Education, £44.99 ISBN 978037076392. Working with Vulnerable Adults by Bridget Penhale and Jonathan...

Jon Turney explores the irresistible images of our world from space
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox, reader in ancient history, University of Oxford. Allen Lane, £25.00, ISBN 9780713999808"(Lane Fox's) arguments...
ART AND DESIGN- Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940By Dianne Sachko Macleod, professor of art history, University of California....
The quality of a university is best measured by the kind of student it turns out rather than the kind it takes in. How, though, do you improve quality in the midst of accelerating expansion? The...

A flurry of excitement ran round our campus last week as the news emerged that Mr Ken Stribling, the CEO of Poppleton Pork Products, was in line for appointment as the new Chair of the QAA.Mr...
A black president would mean most abroad, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Perceptions that the UK is 'aloof' from the Bologna Process are grossly unfair - but they could prove damaging
John Barron, a Classics scholar who played a key role in the reform of British higher education, has died.He was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, on April 1934, the son of a mathematics teacher, and...
The chancellor of the University of Oxford entered the debate on university admissions this week, saying that it was "as offensive" to suggest that Oxford was biased against independent schools as to...
Michael Reiss, former education director at the Royal Society, is right ("Royal Society is considering casting out God", 25 September), creationism needs to be defeated by open debate. By ignoring it...
James D. Williams (Letters, 25 September) asks for more peer-reviewed research from the "intelligent-design creationist" school of thought. Is he unaware of what happens on those rare occasions when...
I am pleased that the article "Lower fees for foreign students" (25 September) recognised the University of Bedfordshire's great strength in international recruitment. However, by underestimating the...
How disappointing to read Tim Luckhurst, the new director of the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent, suggesting that journalism studies offers practitioners only "meagre pickings" and...
Your report on recent research into US-style SATs was wrong in stating that the Schwartz inquiry into fair admissions recommended the use of these tests ("The week in higher education", 18 September...