From where I sit - Consensus on diversity
鈥淧oetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.鈥 The words are Percy Shelley鈥檚, and among a readership such as that of 糖心Vlog,...
Search
-
-
News in brief
Sexism on campusLad culture endemic: NUS studyMore than half of female students experience 鈥減revailing sexism, 鈥榣addism鈥 and a culture of harassment鈥 at their universities, according to a survey by...
-
News in brief
United StatesHonesty and the non-PC deanThe interim dean of a US university鈥檚 school of law has stood down saying he was 鈥渢oo politically incorrect鈥 and not a good fit for the position. Tom Keefe,...
-
Anthropology cut to the core when two tribes go to war
A feud at the heart of the discipline is undermining efforts to build a unified science of humanity, warns Camilla Power
-
Ch谩vez's socialism at the heart of the system
Venezuela鈥檚 revolution will not die with its leader, but will live on in its academy, says Mike Cole
-
Refugee academic seeks safety and financial support
David Matthews meets a Syrian doctoral student at a UK university who is struggling to secure her future
-
Teaching intelligence: Contact hours and student engagement
In the second of a series surveying research evidence about teaching and learning, Graham Gibbs concludes that the best learning is done in small classes involving personal interaction with teachers
-
Australia鈥檚 drive for international students
Asia is the focus of new pathways to study, says Malcolm Gillies
-
RCUK fails to end 鈥榞reen鈥 embargo confusion
Revised open-access guidance leaves unanswered questions
-
George Catlin, American Indian Portraits
Padraig Kirwan reviews an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
-
US historians defend their discipline
Scholars in arts and humanities departments vulnerable to subsidy cuts are fighting back. John Marcus reports
-
Phoenix feels heat over probation threat
Accreditation change could leave US for-profit鈥檚 finances in ashes. John Morgan writes
-
Botmeh suspension lifted by London Met
A university research manager suspended over his prior conviction for the bombing of the Israeli Embassy has been told he can return to work.
-
Government criticised over research commercialisation
UK businesses are being failed by the government鈥檚 lack of a 鈥渃oherent strategy to support the commercialisation of technological innovation in the UK鈥, MPs have said.
-
MP triggers homeopathy dispute at science committee
There is no case for further scientific investigation into the 鈥渕anifestly nonsensical鈥 mechanism by which homeopathy is supposed to work, the government鈥檚 outgoing chief scientific advisor has said.