Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, by Jonathan Lear
William Kolbrener on an extraordinary collection that explores literature鈥檚 role in shaping ethical thought and helping to 鈥榯ransform the psyche鈥

William Kolbrener on an extraordinary collection that explores literature鈥檚 role in shaping ethical thought and helping to 鈥榯ransform the psyche鈥

Survey of would-be undergraduates finds teaching quality is the most important factor in decision-making

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media

A round-up of聽academics awarded research council funding

Research is a complex ecosystem; focusing on instrumental impacts alone fails to give the full picture of how advances are made, say Laura Meagher and Ursula Martin

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It might have been quite instructive and eye-opening if the writer of your feature on the state of French higher education, 鈥淟iberty, autonomy or permanent bureaucracy?鈥 (Features, 20 April), had...
Susan Michie鈥檚 report The Health of People (鈥淭o improve people鈥檚 health, listen to social scientists鈥, Opinion, 13 April) makes an excellent strategic recommendation for a national coordinating body...
As an educator, I have a lot of sympathy for Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto鈥檚 lament about the sorry state of general knowledge (鈥淪orry, they haven鈥檛 a聽clue鈥, Opinion, 13 April); however, my (postmodernist...
Ian McNay says that he bases his claims on 鈥渞igorous fieldwork鈥 and 鈥渢estable evidence鈥 (鈥淐reed and credence鈥, Letters, 30 March), so I was somewhat surprised that he so easily dismissed religion as...