The Political Economy of Sustainable Energy
Mitchell's book offers a detailed critique of the way that energy policy decisions are being made in the UK. She contends that the British regulatory regime's view of innovation is too narrowly...
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An Introduction to Law and Regulation: Text and Materials
An interdisciplinary and contextual discussion of the role of the law that looks at all aspects of regulation, from theories on why regulation occurs through to the problem of enforcement. Despite...
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An Introduction to Law
For those new to the study of law, this is a clear, comprehensive and extremely interesting account of the basics of the English legal system and several key foundation subjects. Unlike many...
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An Introduction to the International Criminal Court
An updated edition of the complete resource on the International Criminal Court, covering organisation, law and procedure as well as the first rulings and prosecutions.Who is it for? Undergraduate...
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Charities: The New Law
The authors, who are specialist charity lawyers, include commentary and practical advice on the new law. The 1993 and 1992 Acts are shown as they will be amended by the 2006 Act, with the full text...
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Companies Act 2006: The New Law
Another account of the changes brought in by the Companies Act 2006. The background to the new law is briefly discussed and there is a limited analysis of the new provisions. The full text of the Act...
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Time to recognise administrators' skills 1
Last week's front cover grabbed my attention, as I thought that it would be on the long-standing difficult dynamic between academics and university administrators. But when I turned to the cover...
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Time to recognise administrators' skills 2
I don't complain about being taken out of context ... but my obnoxious views about businesspeople were uttered in the context of governance, not management. Persons from business backgrounds have...
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Dumbing down: hit or myth? 1
Most of us will have found the article on student illiteracy ("The kids aren't all write", 21 February) uncontroversial and will have identified with its sentiments and the experience it expresses....
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Dumbing down: hit or myth? 2
Why the secrecy of the unnamed writer at the unknown university? We academics are in the business of evidence-based research and need to know whether the literacy of students has declined or not and...
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The metrics of metrics 1
Critics of the Cranfield study of correlations between 2001 research assessment exercise scores and citation counts (Letters, 21 February) ignore two important points. The first is that a metric...
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The metrics of metrics 2
Replacing the current RAE with citation counting is quick, cheap and simple. But only if whole universities are evaluated, instead of specialist cost centres.In a paper published in Science and...
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Â鶹grown philanthropy
We owe the North Americans a huge amount for their enthusiasm, drive and willingness to promote university fundraising as a noble cause ("The art of asking", 21 February). But it would be wrong to...
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Digesting the news
The new format of Times Higher Education is certainly saving me a lot of time. Without even opening it, I can read The Poppletonian and then check the index to find the page or two that I have to...
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The missing link
By linking radical changes we are making in the organisation and management of our university with the very welcome recruitment of Gill Nicholls as our new pro vice-chancellor academic ("Salford's...