Politics
THE EUROPEAN UNION: HOW DOES IT WORK?Editors: Elizabeth Bomberg, John Peterson and Alexander StubbEdition: SecondPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 288Price: £21.99ISBN 9780199206391The new...
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Believe me, it's a big world out there
The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International RelationsEditors: John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia OwensEdition: FourthPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 664Price: £...
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Dangerous in all measures
CONFLICTEditors: Sandra Cheldelin, Daniel Druckman and Larissa FastEdition: SecondPublisher: ContinuumPages: 496Price: £65.00 and £19.99ISBN 9780826495709 and 5716The new edition of Conflict has been...
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Führer's legacy, as seen with new eyes
NAZI GERMANYEditor: Jane CaplanEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 344Price: £50.00 and £16.99ISBN 97801996868 and 6875Among the plethora of books with "Third Reich" or "Nazi" in...
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In theory, persistence will pay dividends
Writing Contemporary HistoryEditors: Robert Gildea and Anne SimoninEdition: FirstPublisher: Hodder EducationPages: 224Price: £16.99ISBN 9780340950005Unfortunately, this textbook is essentially based...
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Whiplashes on target in standards debate 1
My "whiplashes" may indeed have been "badly aimed". But at least one of them seems to have found a target.That being the case, University College London provost Malcolm Grant would do well to...
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Forecast was bright
I feel that some further clarification is needed in response to Sally Hunt (Letters, 11 September). The sector did indeed spend an average of 58 per cent on staff costs in 2006-07, although this...
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A date with trouble
I doubt that Hannah Greig has dispelled the justifiable scepticism about academic collaboration with film producers and their studio masters ("Let's get our dates straight", 11 September).In the...
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Find me a fundraiser
The assertion that there are too many Americans in UK university development offices misses the point ("Americans are 'taking over'?", 11 September).Professionals from the other side of the Atlantic...
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Hera helps to close pay gap
Your account of the work to introduce equal pay missed an important point ("Pay still linked to length of service", 11 September).The Higher Education Role Analysis (Hera) process is a highly...
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Campus community sell-out
It is certainly true that all of us who work in universities need to address the issue of student expectations about higher education ("Living the dream", 11 September). I have just returned from the...
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A dose of its own medicine
The University of Central Lancashire suspends its first-year BSc course in homoeopathic medicine because it has not attracted sufficient student numbers ("Staff fears about 'quackery' lead to review...
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Full stop on spelling debate
While Ken Smith's suggestion that bad spelling should be accepted rather than corrected has provided a divertissement from the ennui of a long wet summer, I feel that it could be taken further ("Just...
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Whiplashes on target in standards debate 3
I could not disagree more with Malcolm Grant that we should stifle debate and pretend that all is well with the standards of British degrees ("The real sting of the QAA whip", 11 September).There are...
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Whiplashes on target in standards debate 2
Hasn't Malcolm Grant made two elementary mistakes? He has confused the suggestion of the Burgess group that degree classifications should be replaced by academic transcripts with the midsummer flurry...