We'll put best foot forward - and boot in if we have to
University Alliance's new leader talks funding policy and standing firm. John Morgan reports
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It's 'official': dissent sacrificed to conformity
British universities are drifting towards a "dangerous state of affairs" where they are governed by "official knowledge" and "official teaching".
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Head of Cardiff Met associate college and spouse received ?1m dividend
The chief executive of the London School of Commerce (LSC), an associate college of Cardiff Metropolitan University, and his wife received a dividend of ?1 million in 2010, company accounts show.
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News in brief
ScotlandSalmond recipe for supportA package of extra financial support for Scottish students has been unveiled by the Holyrood government. As part of the measures, students with a family income of...
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Rivals and collaborators
To work best, the market in outreach work needs a balance of competition and cooperation, says Graeme Atherton
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Soldiers in the fight for the open society need reinforcements
Academics worldwide face economic and political attacks that restrict their freedom to challenge convention, says Jo Glanville
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Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology and Reconnection with the Natural World
Christopher Belshaw prefers the style to the substance of this 'alternative' approach to wildlife
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Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership
Leadership is a contested paradigm, and that is about the only thing upon which leadership scholars and practitioners usually agree. Many learned and experienced people have sought, over decades if...
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Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations
To begin with, an irritation: historians long ago lost the battle to have footnotes where they should be, at the foot of each page, but there can be no excuse for a serious publisher to stick them at...
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The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol
Mandy Merck evaluates a surprising study of a US icon's visionary, sometimes cosmic, cinema
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The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts
The recent trial of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian man who went on a killing spree that left 77 people dead, focused very specifically on the defendant's state of mind. Was he deranged? Or was he...
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
My favourite science book is Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, so when I read Bryson's complimentary words on the dust jacket of The Spark of Life, I was impressed. This text is the...
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Reassuringly expensive
Fees needn't mean the end of scholarly values, argues Felipe Fernández-Armesto. For his US students, putting a price on learning just makes it more desirable
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糖心Vlog thoughts from abroad
Statistics compiled by Poppleton University's Centre for Inconsequential Findings That Are Likely To Get In The Newspapers show that 82 per cent of the UK's academics are currently taking statutory...
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Inequality? You ain't seen nothing yet
Before we get too smug about the possibilities of hordes of discontented US academics flocking to these shores to experience the delights of the research excellence framework, the National Student...