Student complaints rise, but fewer are justified
The overseeing body warns of further increases to cases of grievance as the student experience and fees remain high on the agenda. Rebecca Attwood reports
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UCU threatens Sussex with strikes and academic boycott
Two one-day walkouts planned as the dispute over the university’s proposal to cut about 100 jobs continues. John Morgan reports
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Universities’ income from business grows
New report shows the sector is making the most of opportunities to collaborate and compete with industry, the public sector and charities. Hannah Fearn reports
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REFs and referees
As the World Cup hits fever pitch, Robin Hambleton hopes that UK academics who are hostile to professional, external assessment of the impact of their research will draw a few lessons from the...
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Librarians at the gate over licensing rate
California Digital Library threatens boycott over Nature Publishing’s plans to raise prices. Paul Jump reports
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Willetts floats idea of separating teaching and examining
Universities minister believes change could bring new blood to sector and drive up teaching standards. Simon Baker reports
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Willetts floats idea of separating teaching and examining
Universities minister believes change could bring new blood to sector and drive up teaching standards. Simon Baker reports
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Book of the week: Nonsense on Stilts
Lou Marinoff on a scholarly volunteer's heroic and humorous battle to turn back the moronic tide
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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
John Grodzinski considers a rare British look at an epic clash between the US and a nascent Canada
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Explaining the Normative
The "normative" defines a traditional faultline between philosophy and the social sciences. On the one side lies what we ought to do, on the other what we actually do. The difference between the two...
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The Canon: Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight against It. By Sheila Rowbotham
I can still remember the excitement I felt when, in 1981, I was offered a Social Science Research Council studentship to study full-time for my PhD at The Open University. I had intended to research...
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Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Charles Townshend finds a striking critique of counterterrorism sometimes goes too far
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The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud
It may read like a slice of vintage techno-hippy jargon, but using the term "cloud" as a metaphor for the internet has increasingly found favour among music industries commentators.The cloud was...
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Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities
With his "curious things", "odd corners" and "musty treasures", Charles Dickens makes himself and us at home with the queer. He is drawn to people who seem to be out of place, out of time and out of...
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Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America
Roy Coleman on the politics of fear and finance driving the police crackdowns on 'undesirables'