Full university status has been bestowed on the University College for the Creative Arts. From September, the institution will be known simply as the University for the Creative Arts. Elaine Thomas,...
Gloria Monday examines the importance of clear communication
Once an advocate of core subject teaching, Susan Bassnett now finds herself endorsing the broad diversity afforded by modern curriculums
As Kevin Fong scribbles on napkins, he wonders how Geri penned a whole book
Fellowships tempt rising research stars from abroad to UK to strike up long-term relations, writes Zoe Corbyn
Alex Danchev is entranced by the lyricism and virtuosity of jazz master Charles Lloyd
The web's instant access to good, bad and unfiltered data means we need libraries, and librarians' expertise, now more than ever
A Birmingham professor who fed workers greasy fry-ups to help explore the causes of heart disease died on 7 May aged 83.Kenneth Walton dedicated his life to researching heart disease, thrombosis and...
The provost of Yale University is set to become the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.Andrew Hamilton, a professor of molecular biophysics who has been provost of Yale since 2004, is...
I shall be starting university in September and fully intend to have relationships with my fellow students and lecturers. It would be naive to think they would not become sexual ("Erotic pedagogy",...
Guidelines are about as far as an educational organisation can go to keep lecturing staff out of trouble. When I was a head of department in a UK tertiary institution, I always advised my staff to be...
I was surprised by the flippant tone and complacent content of the feature on sexual relationships between academic staff and their students.The simple truth is that the asymmetries of power, age and...
The QCs' advice about the legality of the University and College Union motion "to consider the moral and political implications" of links with Israel smacks of political expediency ("QCs say bid to...
At the risk of telling Cambridge Economic Policy Associates their business, they seem to have misrepresented the economic character of peer review, albeit in a way that caters to academic grievances...
It was perhaps short-sighted of Bill Rammell to condemn so emphatically Bruce Charlton's suggestions that children from higher social classes have a higher IQ than those from lower social classes....