Focus on local innovation is misguided, journal claims
Drive for industrial relevance may harm long-term research, say academics. Hannah Fearn reports
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Staff attack science degrees in alternative health
Plans to offer new science degrees in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine at the University of Central Lancashire have met fierce opposition - from the university's own staff.Mike Eslea, a senior...
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Nanotech research funding halted by a thumbs-down from the public
Consultancy-led workshops steer EPSRC towards closing an avenue of study. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Play the low-down campus cowboy blues for me
Country music is ethnography with a banjo, and Tara Brabazon discovers that it is as relevant to university life and Friday-night Eastbourne as it is to Appalachia
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Hot papers in psychiatry and psychology 2006-2008
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database
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Dress codes and religious discrimination in educational institutions
There have been a number of recent cases in which individuals have challenged organisations’ dress codes on the ground that the code prevents them from wearing items that they consider to be...
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Behind the scenes at the academy
A letter to this publication criticising the National Student Survey led to the abrupt departure of a senior official from the organisation presiding over teaching and learning in the UK and a storm...
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The great, the good and the ugly
Astronauts, actors, controversial politicians and a Muppet are among those to have landed an honorary degree. So is it all a populist stunt or is there a credible rationale for such awards? asks...
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Putting down the big stick
Joseph S. Nye is part of a long line of US academics who have helped shape foreign policy. A former Clinton adviser, now in the Obama camp, he tells Huw Richards how America can restore its tattered...
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7 August 2008
Whose hand runs the show? - What the Lee Harvey affair reveals about the Higher Education Academy
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An argument for engagement
Howard Davies on a call for the citizenry to increase their level of involvement in democracy
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Physicists on Wall Street - and Other Essays on Science, Politics, Language and Literature
Jeremy Bernstein has had a fine dual career as theoretical physicist and writer. Combining the two, his efforts to take readers inside the minds of other physicists have offered insight into some of...
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The Last Cigarette
What does it take to be a successful diarist? The number-one quality is probably honesty, something Simon Gray has in spades, especially in situations that reflect badly on him. Take, for instance,...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Portsmouth
1. Blackstone's Statutes on Employment Law 2007-2008 edited by Richard Kidner Oxford University Press, £16.99 ISBN 97801992117152. An Experiential Approach to Organization Development by Donald Brown...