Pay review will be robust
As the three independent members appointed to the Joint Negotiating Committee for ÌÇÐÄVlog Staff review of higher education finance and pay data, we feel it is important to bring some...
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Positive appraisal
I hope that Michael Sheehan's next appraisal applauds his heroic stance against appraisal and performance management ("'Performance management is a waste of time', claims HR professor", 19 June). If...
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NSS is a tool for good 1
Lee Harvey's criticisms of the National Student Survey ("Jumping through hoops on a white elephant", 12 June) are unfounded. He cites two "blatant attempts at manipulation" by university staff, but...
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NSS is a tool for good 2
Lee Harvey's views on the National Student Survey overlook the very real benefits it has brought to prospective students and to the universities. Tomorrow's students face a bewildering array of...
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Poppletonian spirit
Energy audits? Work-life balance? Spiritual health? Positive life choice? (News, 19 June). Surely this should have been in The Poppletonian?William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University.
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The nosy professor
Sam Gosling pokes around people's homes, into their cupboards and under their beds. But it's not voyeuristic - such off-the-wall research is delivering crucial insights into personality, Matthew...
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Where has all the passion gone?
In the heyday of campus radicalism, protests took place at the drop of a hat and Marxism ruled. Today's young are quieter and as likely to vote Tory as for the Left. There's still commitment but, as...
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Figure it out
While wrestling, crime, sex and tulipmania spice up popular books on economics, the academic discipline often remains impenetrable. Matthew Reisz considers the costs and benefits of complexity
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26 June 2008
Born to be mild - Is conservatism a badge of honour among students?
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Bio labs could be built in urban areas
MPs see no reason why laboratories that handle the most dangerous pathogens cannot be operated in universities or in towns
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In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
Robert Gillett on Erika and Klaus Mann's bittersweet relationships with family and country
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Sunshine: One Man's Search for Happiness
I hate smiley faces, and anyone who uses them. It doesn't follow that I hate the sun, but I do hate the fact that endless sunshine makes work impossible. I also hate the fact that sunshine brings on...
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Credit and Blame
Popular science writing at its best enables scientists to explore the implications of their fields' findings and emerging tendencies in ways rarely allowed by the peer-review process. This can make...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers - Blackwell, Bristol
1. Pass Finals: A Companion to Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine, Second Edition by Geoff Smith, Elizabeth Carty and Louise Langmead. Elsevier, £22.99. ISBN 97807020287792. The Kingdom of Infinite...
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The Pioneering Garretts: Breaking the Barriers for Women
Stephen Halliday on six fearless sisters whose pioneering feminism left Queen Victoria unamused