Europe: The State of the Union
From time to time, my students ask me whether I am for or against the European Union. In future, I may just point them in the direction of Anand Menon's new book.Menon's mission is to persuade us to...
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Book of the Week: Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
John Gilbey relives the heady days of IT upheaval
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The week in books
The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew by Mark de Rond, reader in strategy and organisation, University of Cambridge. Icon Books, £17.99, ISBN 9781848310155"There is a...
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Published this week
(J) = Review forthcomingARCHITECTURE- (J) The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New YorkBy Gail Fenske. University of Chicago Press, £34.00. ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 21 August 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"Psychics can see the color of time it's...
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Personal Development Office
Hello Everybody, Jennifer Doubleday here!I'm saying who I am because my tutor on this residential Personal Development Weekend says that knowing who you are is the first step on the path to self-...
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Offers we can't refuse
Sally Feldman on the deals, desperation and bottom-line realities of clearing
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Guest leader: It's time to plan for the unknown
Economic woes and political uncertainty mean the sector must take charge in proposing new policies, says Deian Hopkin
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J.D. (John) Marshall, 1919-2008.
J.D. (John) Marshall, 1919-2008.A "hardy frontiersman" of academia who developed a passion for regional history while based in Cumbria as a Second World War conscientious objector has died.J.D. (John...
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Big questions unasked in every medium
Instead of "Grappling with the digital divide" (14 August), we have the usual mishmash of, on the one hand, academics who should know better, lamenting their incapacity to catch up with e-literate...
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Me thinks 1
I was struck by the very great difference in the standard of the two letters (Letters, 14 August) you published last week in response to my article on variant spelling ("Just spell it like it is", 7...
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Me thinks 2
Ken Smith advocates accepting common spelling errors by undergraduates. Will they have to remember lists of permitted words to misspell? If one wishes to take the permissive route, why not also...
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US joins the club
The interest that United States higher education is taking in the Bologna Process ("America lacks the Bolognese recipe for true harmonisation", 14 August) is increasing.Academics and funding...
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Doctorate is just the start
The debate on the qualities and respective merits of a traditional PhD versus a taught doctorate will probably rage long ("Scholars remain unconvinced about the value of professional doctorates", 14...
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Get back to your day job
I thought that the point of writing outside your area of expertise was to wonder at new intellectual discoveries and not to repeat lazy innuendo and borderline-racist cliches the way Terence Kealey...