The meeting of true minds - and bodies 1
I shall be starting university in September and fully intend to have relationships with my fellow students and lecturers. It would be naive to think they would not become sexual ("Erotic pedagogy",...
I shall be starting university in September and fully intend to have relationships with my fellow students and lecturers. It would be naive to think they would not become sexual ("Erotic pedagogy",...
Guidelines are about as far as an educational organisation can go to keep lecturing staff out of trouble. When I was a head of department in a UK tertiary institution, I always advised my staff to be...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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-...
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...
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...

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
Scholars must challenge the copyright laws, which allow estates to stifle efforts to generate new ideas about an author's works, argues Alistair McCleery

The Google generation - Can we teach cut-and-paste students the value of scholarship?
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...
A good primer on US law fails to look beyond the parochial in this global age, says Terence Kealey
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...