This beautiful book is a tribute to a distinguished architectural historian on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Cambridge, and includes a useful bibliography of David Watkin's...
1. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook edited by Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. Palgrave Macmillan, £22.99 ISBN 97803336118072. Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law, Seventh...
A treatise on moral relativism leads Robert Segal to question whether we are in fact absolutists
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Homo erectus: Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, EthiopiaEdited by W. Henry Gilbert, assistant professor of anthropology, California State...
"Europe's diverse school systems contain a host of innovative and excellent practices. We should make better use of this diversity." So says An Agenda for European Co-operation on Schools, a recent...
Our Head of Social Psychology, Professor G.W. Tipping, has thrown his not-inconsiderable weight behind the letter from 20 eminent scientists calling for a rebellion against new research council rules...
Sally Feldman says academics should talk to the media about their work
By continuing to undervalue and underfund the thing that makes UK higher education unique, we endanger our reputation
Sheila Allen, a leading feminist, sociologist and political activist, has died.She was born in East Yorkshire in 1930 and brought up in Lincolnshire. Her father was an impoverished Irish labourer...
Your report "Lib Dems want better teaching and no fees" (12 February) implies that there is a link between possessing a teaching qualification and providing high-quality teaching. No such link has...
How heartening to finally have an acknowledgement of the value of our efforts to teach atypical students at London Metropolitan University and the difficulties we face doing so. How disappointing...
We've read a lot of nonsense about the implications of the research assesment exercise 2008 (much from a rent-a-quote vice-chancellor), including frequent reference to a wider spread of funding and a...
As an American physicist who has worked in Sydney and now Cambridge for nearly 20 years, I found some irony in the close juxtaposition of the insightful opinion piece by Alan Ryan of the University...
"Older isn't always wiser" (29 January) is the headline of a report about University of Bedfordshire vice-chancellor Les Ebdon's claims that "many researchers" may be past their prime by the age of...
For some years now we have witnessed the virulent spread of football or sports-related vocabulary in universities today - goals, targets, training, teamwork, game-playing and league tables, not to...