A measured relationship
League tables are used to gauge university performance, influence potential students and steer management policy, but should they be trusted? A survey suggests that many fall short of the mark,...
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Laying down the law
The advent of the UK's first private law school has reignited debate about whether a law course should comprise liberal education or commercial training. Hannah Fearn hears the case for and against
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10 April 2008
Emotionally overwhelmed - How lecturers cope with student despair
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Do GPs care whether their patients get back to work?
There was a flurry of activity at the Department of Health last month when the Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, announced plans to create a “well note” in place of a “sick note”. The aim was to get...
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Learning from Experience Trust
• Malcolm Barry, formerly of Goldsmiths College, London and London Metropolitan University, has been confirmed as the new director of the trust. The outgoing Director, Dr Michael Field, becomes a...
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First Impressions competition: April 3 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a magical tale of finding a female identity:“The summer she was fifteen, Melanie discovered she was...
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The Book of the Week: Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West
Tom Palaima on a long, bloody clash of cultures
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The Week in Books
The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations by Stephen Braude, professor of philosophy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. University of Chicago Press, £11.50, ISBN...
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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Steve Fuller on Deirdre McCloskey's ongoing struggle against economists' fetishisation of data
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The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry
The Selling Sound is a fascinating and wide-ranging account of the rise of the country music industry. This is not a dry economic discussion of an emerging section of the cultural industries, but a...
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Leadership: A Critical Text
It is refreshing when you come across a clear, well-written book about leadership that is not peddling the latest gimmick, buzzword or quick fix. What makes this work really refreshing is the...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Edinburgh
1. The Road to Independence? Scotland Since the Sixties by Murray Pittock. Reaktion Books, £15.95. ISBN 97818618936592. What Is This Thing Called Knowledge? by Duncan Pritchard. Routledge, £14.99....
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
Tara Brabazon on bold tales of a Web 2.0 revolution to which the poor and excluded need not apply
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art
The trickster is a well-known figure in folklore. Best known are Coyote, Hare and Raven. Paul Radin's classic The Trickster (1956) presents the most famous of these Native American tales. Lewis Hyde...