Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart
Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective
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The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
Robert A. Segal on a comprehensive study of the growth of the world’s biggest religion
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Karen McAulay, Jules Pretty, Peter J. Smith, Sharon Wheeler and Sue White...
…on The House on an Irish Hillside, One Billion Hungry, Our Man in Havana, Return to the Stones and Water: All That Matters
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CDBU cordially invites...
Sir Adrian Smith, vice-chancellor of the University of London, chastises colleagues in the Council for the Defence of British Universities who take “a rather naive view that beauty, truth and...
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Healthy PR exercise
Negative comments about the University of Leicester’s handling of the Richard III announcement show how far we have to go before professional public relations is accepted by all research disciplines...
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Watered-down argument
If psychotherapists want respect for alternatives to randomised controlled trials, they must outline them clearly, not model their rhetoric on that of homeopaths (“Jury’s out on trial by ideological...
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Where beagles share
Roger Brown (Letters, 14 February) attacks our independent schools with the usual charge of elitism and more especially damns them for spending money on beagle kennels. Recent research at the...
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Open to abuse? We do it to ourselves
Yet more catastrophic timidity from the UK’s universities, this time over open access (“Fool’s gold?”, 14 February). The system being proposed is one in which universities and academics will gain...
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Shine on, other diamonds
Regarding “Universities pull out of EU’s ‘unjustifiable’ U-Multirank” (News, 7 February).The antipathy of the League of European Research Universities towards the rankings system is hardly...
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Unequal in eyes of law
It is interesting to read that the University of Surrey has voted against “normalising” marks on its LLB course to ensure that fewer students fail despite pressure to do so “as the Law School is out...
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X marks the disrespect
A few years back I completed a master’s course. In the next few months I will have a paper published in Journal A based on my research project. My former supervisor, Dr X, is second author.As the...
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Cash converters
John Holmwood warns that firms with closed-door government access will turn state-funded public assets into private profit
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News in brief
Global University SummitLeaders shall speak unto leaders“Universities and economic growth” is the theme of this year’s Global University Summit, which will bring together politicians, business...
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From where I sit - 'Brexit'? It's cold outside
One old-time story of British attitudes to the European Union goes like this. It’s 1955. There is a meeting determining whether to create the European Economic Community. Six continental delegations...
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21 February 2013
Escape from limbo - To defeat the visa bureaucracy, the personal must become political