The meeting of true minds - and bodies 3
I was surprised by the flippant tone and complacent content of the feature on sexual relationships between academic staff and their students.The simple truth is that the asymmetries of power, age and...
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Motion and intransigence
The QCs' advice about the legality of the University and College Union motion "to consider the moral and political implications" of links with Israel smacks of political expediency ("QCs say bid to...
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Pro bono, pro and con
At the risk of telling Cambridge Economic Policy Associates their business, they seem to have misrepresented the economic character of peer review, albeit in a way that caters to academic grievances...
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We don't need no education
It was perhaps short-sighted of Bill Rammell to condemn so emphatically Bruce Charlton's suggestions that children from higher social classes have a higher IQ than those from lower social classes....
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Nottingham answers sought
The University of Nottingham's statement on Rizwaan Sabir's arrest and detention under anti-terror legislation is at odds with the student's account ("Nottingham scholar held for 6 days under anti-...
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Data protection and the law
Part of my role involves the development of staff training materials to raise levels of awareness and proficiency concerning data protection ("Don't tell mum: academic censured for discussing son's...
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Original ideas about copying
We read with interest how Steve Bennett of the University of Hertfordshire uses plagiarism-detection software to highlight and reward originality in his computing students' written work ("Originality...
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Hits and misses
Does the Google generation, which has grown up with a deluge of data just clicks away, lack the independence of thought and critical rigour needed for higher study? Matthew Reisz investigates
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Dead hands keep a closed book
Scholars must challenge the copyright laws, which allow estates to stifle efforts to generate new ideas about an author's works, argues Alistair McCleery
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5 June 2008
The Google generation - Can we teach cut-and-paste students the value of scholarship?
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UCU backs call to ‘consider moral implications’ of ties to Israel
Delegates at the union’s conference vote in favour of motion that cites the ‘apparent complicity of most of the Israeli academy’ in the ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza. Phil Baty and Melanie...
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Freedom to talk rubbish
A good primer on US law fails to look beyond the parochial in this global age, says Terence Kealey
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Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
Most observers of social movements, even their participants, underestimate their diversity and complexity. Every social movement is a constantly roiling mass of uneasy fractions, tendencies and...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Loughborough
1. The No Nonsense Guide to Democracy by Richard Swift Verso, £7.00 ISBN 97818598447002. The Entertainer by John Osborne Faber and Faber, £8.99 ISBN 97805710636733. An Actor Prepares by Constantin...
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Hegel and the chicken suit
John Lippitt on a Lacanian analysis of comedy that trips up on a few Real and Symbolic banana skins