We rise, nature droops
Lonesome George
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First Impressions
This week's contest to identify a book from its first sentence is from a novel about Gandhi by a friend of Graham Greene: "His mother, who died delivering him, and his father, who was killed in...
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Doors open, but not all may enter
The Chosen
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A little humility to bring mutual understanding
Knowledge Monopolies
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Accept, explore and find the truth
Acting and Reacting
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Waves of change close on campus
Universities and the Europe of Knowledge
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Lights, cameras, liberation
Free Cinema
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Issue index page
Latest Issue No 24: May 26 2006 Economics Cultural, media & gender studies Philosophy Literature & poetry Geography & environmental science Law No 23: February 24...
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Supertext
Don Bannister and Fay Fransella's Inquiring Man: The Theory of Personal Constructs was the book that made me a psychologist. I bought it in Cambridge at the end of my first term of full-time...
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Art's slightly scary fan
Martin Kemp had an unconventional start to his career as an art historian and is now rewriting the way the subject is approached. Helen Davies meets him Martin Kemp's career as an art historian began...
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Do the iPod shuffle, but don't miss the lecture
A Bradford University lecturer claims to be the first UK academic to abolish lectures completely in favour of podcasts. First-year students will not have go to a lecture hall to listen to Bill Ashraf...
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Law flouted on contract staff
Universities are using breaks in contract to avoid switching staff to permanent status. Claire Sanders reports Short-term contracts are still "endemic" in universities despite new European laws...
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'He helped develop a technique that shows how tongues move during speech'
Bill Hardcastle has won an award for his work to help children and adults with speech disorders. Thirty years ago, Bill Hardcastle had three choices when moving from his native Australia to take a...
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On the move...
Glasgow University has appointed Bruce Carrington , professor, head of the department of educational studies. He will take up his new post on August 1. He is currently at the School of Education,...
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Fellows share land sale bonus
Some are outraged by New College's decision to share a £55 million windfall with top academics via an extra £10,000 in their salaries for three years. Jessica Shepherd reports. An Oxford University...