Reprieve for feminist threatened with retirement
Sheila Rowbotham, the renowned feminist writer threatened with compulsory retirement by the University of Manchester, has won a three-year reprieve.News that the professor of gender and labour...
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Forty UCU staff to go at a cost of £1 million
About 40 University and College Union employees are to leave this summer under a voluntary redundancy scheme.The departures, which will be completed by the end of August, are expected to cost the...
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Let students enjoy the power of print
Academics welcome a new trend for undergraduate journals. Zoe Corbyn and Matt Rooney report
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China nears UK in brain games
Britain is about to lose its place in the world table for research to the Asian giant, says Zoe Corbyn
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Pick-a-peer option 'undermining review system'
A growing practice that allows academics submitting papers to peer-reviewed journals to name individuals they would prefer not to be used as reviewers has come under criticism for undermining the...
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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...