Old lows, new highs
The article "Competition swells ranks of professors" (April ) asserts that there is "a danger of 'grade inflation' taking place so that the title could begin to lose its value as a mark of academic...
The article "Competition swells ranks of professors" (April ) asserts that there is "a danger of 'grade inflation' taking place so that the title could begin to lose its value as a mark of academic...
The letter from David Booth (April ) regarding job titles made me chuckle, having once been a fuel-injection engineer (aka petrol-pump attendant). Does he not realise that research administrators are...
In his article "Blind faith" (Features, April ), Anthony Glees berates my discipline for turning down "a government offer of £1.3 million to study how to combat terrorism by countering radicalisation...
Being a vegetarian is about taking the (easy) ethical choice that you don't require animals to be killed just so that you can eat them. Nigel Hunt's appalling letter (April ) suggests that it is OK...
I was extremely interested to read the article on the advent of psychometric testing in higher education ("New tests will probe employee suitability", April 20). But my interest in its use comes from...
Tony Greenstein's letter is evidence of the way people adhere religiously to one narrative without doing further research (Letters, April ). In addition to reading work by Ilan Pappe, Greenstein...
Podcasts, blogs and wikis are making inroads into education and work - and academics want to be in the vanguard. Matt Baker reports They're whispering about her in the corridors of Whitehall. Her...
The European Union has ambitions to make the Continent into a single knowledge zone in which information and people can move as freely as goods. Information technology is a vital part of this vision...
Vicarious learning, in which people learn from watching others learn, helps students improve their clinical reasoning, writes Richard Cox Vicarious learning is the idea that people can learn via...
With party politics and voter turnouts waning but many citizens active on local and global issues, experts ponder what might stir a democratic revival Only local autonomy will restore people's belief...
With party politics and voter turnouts waning but many citizens active on local and global issues, experts ponder what might stir a democratic revival Today's interactive media can help both people...
With party politics and voter turnouts waning but many citizens active on local and global issues, experts ponder what might stir a democratic revival Politics isn't suffering from apathy but from...
Identity politics were key in the fight for gay equality, but what's needed now is a broader focus on the notion of a basic right to sexual expression, believes Matt Cook In 1971, the Gay Liberation...
Britain led the world in the early development of ICT, says Ron Cooke. Maintaining and exploiting that critical advantage requires even greater vision Over the past decade and more, information and...
Academics are keen on the idea of self-archiving, which boosts citations and RAE kudos, but they have been slow to put work online, discovers Matt Baker More than two months after the European...