Dependence daze
I am disturbed by your report that a target-focused education means that undergraduates struggle in many cases to learn without direct guidance from tutors ("To spoon-feed is not to nurture", 24...
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Universal (bad) grammar
As a child preparing for my middle school entrance exams, I recall my English teacher patiently instructing us in the avoidance of the run-on sentence. I was therefore surprised to see in a recent...
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Film review: Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
An outdated, stylised reality is a missed opportunity for a more interesting narrative, laments Will Brooker
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TV review: Real Crime with Mark Austin: Fallen Angel
The murder of a Hell's Angel on the M40 exemplifies the lurking barbarism of men, says Gary Day
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Paula Allman, 1944-2011
Through her work in adult education and her force of personality, Paula Allman was "revered by those who dream of and work towards ushering in a better world".Born on 17 January 1944 in Chicago, Dr...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University for the Creative Arts/KentSlime mould gets movingTwo universities have joined forces in an attempt to explain complicated biological processes with computer-generated animation. The joint...
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Odds and quads
Charles Darwin spent only 18 months of HMS Beagle's five-year voyage at sea.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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1 December 2011
Holding out for some heroes - An embattled academy needs a new breed of chancellor
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Value quality of research, not grant proposals, Sir Paul Nurse urges
Research funders should avoid “micromanaging” research and requiring applicants to set out the impact of their proposals, according to the president of the Royal Society.
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European Commission unveils research spending plans
The European Research Council’s budget will increase by nearly 80 per cent if the European Commission’s detailed proposals for its research and innovation spending are adopted.
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Woolf returns damning verdict on LSE’s Libya links
The London School of Economics was guilty of multiple failures of governance and management in its links with the deposed Gaddafi regime, an inquiry has concluded.
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Teesside lecturer arrested in phone hacking inquiry
A senior lecturer at Teesside University is reported to have been arrested as part of Operation Weeting, the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking.
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University staff join ‘biggest strike for a generation’
University lecturers and support staff are on strike over pensions today, joining national action that unions say will involve up to two million public sector workers.