'Roller-coaster' pensions offer spills, not thrills
Stand-alone university pension schemes for non-academic support staff have a combined deficit of ?1.1 billion, new analysis shows.
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Sage on the stage - your time is up
Ignore innovative and team-based learning at your peril, HEA conference hears. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
Widening accessCornish lead in county fundingStudents in Cornwall could receive up to ?3,000 each from their local council in a scheme that represents a first for a local authority under current...
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The Adventure of French Philosophy
This examination of past and future thought leaves Shahidha Bari captivated, and occasionally baffled
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Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib
Joanna Bourke reflects on the role of women in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by the US military
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Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Daniel Horowitz is a leading cartographer of cultural studies, as much at home with the quaggy contents of the bog as with the high, dry sierra of theory. He writes big books on one big theme: the...
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When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy
This is a revolutionary book - certainly within the context of mainstream analytic philosophy. But its appeal should be wider than the admittedly narrow circle of professional philosophers. Indeed,...
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Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation
Animal migrations and the navigation skills they require have long been a source of fascination, and they continue to be an active research field in biology. Despite progress over the past century,...
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Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema
Not a conventional history of film and no obvious theme - it's a bit of a mixed bag, says Philip Kemp
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The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality
The term "groundbreaking research" is often bestowed too lightly, but it is richly deserved in the case of this book. Mark McCormack offers a pioneering and remarkably inspiring account of the...
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Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity between the Wars
This book's title reflects an original and bold move, namely to focus on the location of Katrina Gulliver's subjects (modern women in China and Japan) rather than their national, cultural and/or...
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Discourse and discourtesy
Conferences should be occasions for sharing and engagement, but Charles Husband too often sees only selfish and impolite behaviour
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A special message
We have been asked to publish this message from Dr J.K. Easement, the chair of the university's Mitigating Circumstances CommitteeWill all supervisors who wish to claim mitigating assessment...
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Wronged academic not in the clear yet
Your moving interview with the Colombian academic Miguel ?ngel Beltrán ("Arrested, beaten, caged - but the state could not break him", News, 5 July) highlights the dangers academics around the world...
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Write it for you wholesale
While I agree with George MacDonald Ross and Jude Carroll that creating independent, enthusiastic learners and redesigning assessments to make plagiarism more difficult are important, I fear that "...