Joined in battle 1
Derek Attridge is absolutely right when he argues that criticism in literary degrees should be open to what he calls a certain "magic": that intake of breath at the unexpected, the requirement that...
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Joined in battle 2
It's bad enough that so many diverse fields of learning are increasingly subject to the crass positivism that masquerades as "knowledge" in modern culture. My own fields of psychotherapy, with its...
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Read, and learn
We have all had the depressing experience of seeing students picking up work we've conscientiously marked and moderated, glance at the grade, then drop it to the bottom of their bag, never to be...
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Presses under pressure 1
Your critique of UK academic publishers was an unsettling read ("Publish and be ignored", 24 April).You ignored the vast majority of publishers operating creatively to bring specialised books to a...
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Presses under pressure 2
Your one-sided attack on British academic publishing was a missed opportunity to examine the difficulties publishers face at a time when dwindling library budgets and low incentives for academics to...
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Ruled by the bottom line
If the Arts and Humanities Research Council will no longer support monographs ("AHRC to rethink project funding", 1 May), it might as well change its name to the Arts and Humanities Research Cull....
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Birthday boy
Congratulations to Keith Ponting (30)! I've been anxiously awaiting his birthday for many weeks and was wondering if he was just a journalistic invention, but this reassures me (The Poppletonian, 1...
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Advisory capacity only
As members of the clinical ethics service at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, we must challenge the picture painted in the article "Doing the right thing" (24 April).You imply that complex...
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From brain drain to bright future
Cambridge leads the field in producing Nobel science laureates, but many of the UK's best scientists have left to pursue work in the US. Matthew Reisz finds out from past winners what tempted them to...
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Revolution is in the air
Reform is widely felt to be overdue for French higher education, but its proponents face an entrenched and powerful universities system. Matthew Reisz assesses the appetite for change
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A global shortage of solutions
John Whitelegg on a review of current economic challenges that overpromises and underdelivers
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The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol
This book offers one of the most profound reflections on symbol since Paul de Man: subtle, original and provocative. It is a brief book, but extremely rich, and often brilliant.Nicholas Halmi's...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Manchester
1. Organizational Development: Behavioral Science Interventions for Organization Improvement by Wendell L. French and Cecil H. Bell Pearson Education, £50.99 ISBN 97801324223142. Blackstone's...
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Betting on the seeds of change
Jules Pretty weighs up the arguments for GMO solutions to Africa's continuing agricultural crisis
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Music, Sound and Multimedia: From the Live to the Virtual
We live in an age of the mass consumption of culture, and much of this involves reading, listening or playing during the daily commute. Look around at fellow passengers on public transport and you'll...