Head cases or a healthy scepticism?
For as long as there has been a medical orthodoxy, there have been patients seeking alternatives to it, from mesmerism to homeopathy to reiki. So does that make them gullible, asks Roberta Bivins, or...
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Nobody f***s with my speakers
Or at least they didn't, says veteran talks organiser Marquard Smith, until a recent event when it all went maddeningly, horribly wrong I often wonder why so little academic research has been...
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The best and worst of times
Barbarism and Civilization
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Phlegm and nonsense
Passions and Tempers
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Fine vintage of veritas in vino
Questions of Taste
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Return of the Right, led by a dark horse
Iran and the Rise of its Neoconservatives
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Multi-layered world but riven by rivalries
Journey into Islam
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Master class in the art of acting fairly
Reflections on the Just
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an autobiographical record of life in America's South: "One winter morning in the long-ago,...
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Private tuition booms
Better-off undergraduates gain advantage as contact time shrinks and class sizes grow. Amy Binns reports Undergraduates are increasingly turning to private tutors, according to tutoring agencies,...
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Bradford tears up teach-only contracts
Bradford University has abolished teaching-only contracts after a policy group agreed that all staff should be able to engage in at least some scholarship. Bradford was one of the first universities...
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'He brings a wealth of international experience from his career at unesco'
Kent University's first visiting professor in tourism has brokered UN treaties on heritage and the environment. Unesco director of ecological and earth sciences Natarajan Ishwaran will be coming to...
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On the move...
University of the Arts London has appointed Will Bridge as its first ever deputy rector. Dr Bridge is the current head of London College of Communication, one of University of the Arts London's six...
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Metrics marred by doubt at first cite
When researcher Richard Hull searched online for citations of an article about German and American industrial relations, he did not expect to find links to Cell and Tissue Research and The Journal of...
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UCL is sued over $1bn deal
Pharmaceutical tie-up rekindles battle for academics' rights, reports Melanie Newman. An academic who made a discovery worth more than $1 billion (£500 million) a year to the pharmaceutical industry...