Workers have recently felt the benefit of changes to legislation governing 鈥渨orking time鈥. For example, from 6 April 2009 the statutory entitlement to holidays increased to 28 days (inclusive of bank...
Data provided by Thomson Reuters鈥 Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998 鈥 31 December 2008
A bold new move to break down the "iron curtain" between academics and administrators was announced last week by our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett.Targett said that he was "in positive...
Kevin Fong narrowly avoids a kebab-stained diplomatic incident
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Stephen Halliday kicks around a few ideas about how to level the playing field in popular sports and make them more exciting
If standards are vital, why is the select committee investigating dumbing down marked by spin, absenteeism and squabbling?
The Dutch university calls itself a "centre of excellence", using buzzwords such as "quality", "creativity" and "innovation".The facts belie the propaganda. The university's budget is based on...
George Holmes, a leading historian of medieval and Renaissance Europe, has died.
Universities - bastions of truth - should be speaking out and challenging the practices that are contributing to the moral bankruptcy of our society. Their role should be one of critics of society...
Ageism would be the exclusion of people from election to the British Academy after a certain age ("Out-of-touch academy is unfit for grant role, says former fellow", 16 April). In fields such as...
John Milbank is quoted as saying that "by supporting the total disjuncture of sex and procreation, the Left is really supporting a new mode of fascism" ("Lazarus-style comeback", 16 April).Two things...
Radical orthodoxy is more Dracula than Lazarus. It's reactionary romanticism in fancy dress: the undead dolled up with postmodern tosh. Your profile included John Milbank's inane remarks about social...
The story "V-c casts doubt on humanities funding" (16 April) reports on University of Exeter vice-chancellor Steve Smith's criticism of researchers in the humanities and social sciences for their...
It is a great pity, but hardly surprising, to see the leader-elect of university leaders publicly subscribing to the continued prostitution of the academy. Steve Smith continues, too, that other...