Mary Midgley: more than a sum of parts
Exasperated by a profusion of loose thinking, the philosopher tackles the assertion that the self is only a manifestation of the physical body
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A team built by numbers won’t add up to much
Universities won’t be sustainable or fulfil their missions if they manage academics using research metrics alone, says a senior manager
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UUK review to look at nine-month contracts
Efficiency task forces told to seek savings in radical changes to practices
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Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, by Davina Cooper
Howard Segal on an analysis of six small-scale projects and their participants’ experiences
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This bias has wings
I was really enjoying “For the greater good” (Opinion, March). It was, I thought, a well-argued solution to how the government should use the funding system to align the interests of students,...
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Q&A with Alice Roberts
We speak to the new president of the Association for Science Education
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Durham v-c wanted student paper ‘to be an advertisement’
Former Palatinate editors claim they feared expulsion after intervention by Chris Higgins
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Short shrift from staff for Queen Mary’s short form
Implementation of QML abbreviation delayed while opposing academics are consulted
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More data can lead to poor student choices, Hefce learns
Overwhelmed university applicants filter out information to cope, research finds
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Marking boycott is an unconscionable sanction
Many lecturers will not even consider the ‘nuclear option’ of boycotting marking in the pay dispute, says Bill Ashraf
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Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World, by Michael Scott
Barbara Graziosi on the ‘management consultant’ whose advice was sought for more than 1,000 years
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Standards and pay in public life
As vice-chancellors’ salaries creep up, do university heads risk the same fate as bankers in the court of public opinion?
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Bouncing back
One of our university’s leading physicists, Dr Helen Robards, has entered the debate about student loan repayments.Dr Robards told our reporter Keith Ponting (30) that her interest was prompted by...
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Overhaul of metrics usage could cut frequency of REF
Chair of review into use of metrics suggests REF interval could be cut to once a decade
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East meets West in MBA for future masters of universe
‘Billionaires come to us to study’, Chinese business school dean says of his role in £77,000 joint course