9 March: After my session last week with Marcus about most of my modules failing the organisation’s new viability test, I go home in a state of great anguish. I know this exercise is contrived, I...
The Government and universities must come clean about the A* A-level grade before the whole examination standard is undermined, writes Geoff Lucas
Gloria Monday’s newfound street cred sees her sharing a Quorn and vodka repast around a student table where the proletarian accents are fake but the filth is real
University rejects call to ignore new grade in the short term. Rebecca Attwood reports
The 2008 RAE results mean that funders will have to judge institutions on delivery, not reputation, writes Gerald Bennett
In this article we consider a recent case on the question of when an employee is “disabled” for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
Tony Kushner admires an analysis of a brutal episode in British history
Finance: Servant or Deceiver? Financialization at the Crossroads by Paul H. Dembinski, professor of economics, University of Fribourg. Palgrave Macmillan, £60.00, ISBN 9780230220379"Some of the book'...
The pressure to be economically relevant is more injurious than implied here, says Graham Farmelo
Music, literature and the visual arts all underwent modernist transformations around the turn of the 20th century. Could it be that mathematics did the same thing? Just to give this question serious...
1. Quantitative Approaches in Business Studies, Seventh Edition by Clare Morris. Pearson Education, £38.99. ISBN 978037088962. Art in Theory 1900-2000, Second Edition by Charles Harrison and Paul...
Alex Danchev is underwhelmed by some well-meaning but overpriced utopian futurology
Andrew Marvell's poetry has long been attended by critical controversy or quizzical scepticism, due in part to his characteristic ambivalence and additionally by debate about his biography and...
With the rise of China as a global power triggering increasing demand for people with knowledge of Chinese language and culture, Keekok Lee's new book is undoubtedly a timely and more than welcome...
Laleh Khalili on an academic agony aunt who advises on everything from sex to seminar etiquette