Divine irony
Musing on the often acrimonious debate between atheists and believers, Simon Blackburn takes as his inspiration David Hume, who approached the issue not with hatred but with humour
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Tenuous-track positions
Overworked, underpaid and insecure: adjunct and part-time US faculty are fighting to convince their institutions - and tenured colleagues - that they deserve better. Jon Marcus reports
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Reversal of fortunes
Successive RAEs have concentrated research cash in the hands of the elite. This time around, the pie has been shared more widely. Zoë Corbyn reports
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5 March 2009
Who’s hit the jackpot? - Funding allocations in full
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UK higher education’s research claims are ‘ridiculous’, says Vodafone director
R&D boss thinks the grandiose pretensions of the ‘University of Middle Wallop’ are putting off international firms and damaging the country’s reputation. Hannah Fearn reports
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Tara Brabazon: Music and passion, but never in fashion
Barry Manilow has the skill to vacuum-seal emotion in every lyric and speaks for and to those who are neglected and marginalised
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Bullied Blogger: Walking a tightrope in the dark…
24 February: I phoned in sick on Friday and decided to dispatch some emails seeking advice on what the hell to do about Marcus. Just when there seems a way out of the situation, in comes an email to...
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Ucas chief to head up quality watchdog
The chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is set to become the next head of the higher education quality watchdog, it has been announced.Anthony McClaran will take over...
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The students are revolting
In which a lecture on the Thirty Years War is swept aside by a juggernaut of animal welfare protests, and Gloria Monday becomes a pro-chicken heroine despite herself
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An American in Victorian Cambridge
A Yank's college confessional about Cambridge in the 1840s is just capital, finds Peter Mandler
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Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global
Ursula Heise's book leads ecocriticism in a new direction, one that should have been taken long before now. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet is the first work of literary ecocriticism to start out...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Bristol
1. Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition by Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger and William A. Joseph. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, £32.99. ISBN 97806186044702. Theory and Methods in Political...
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Every Fury on Earth
These sharp essays on intellectuals, academia and politics chart a promising career, Alan Ryan says
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The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World
In this thought-provoking book, Amar Bhide challenges the "technonationalist" view that America's comparative advantage lies in technological leadership and the associated "alarmist" fears that, as...
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Book of the Week - Max Weber: A Biography
In one of the opening chapters of this absorbing and meticulously researched biography of the great polymath of the human sciences, the author recounts the fate of Max Weber's talented younger...