First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a prize-winning novel by a writer who grew up in Egypt: "'I'm writing a history of the world,' she...
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What's on the horizon for the superpower?
American Power in the 21st Century - The United States and the Great Powers
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On the bus of truth and sorrow
Kosova Express
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Swingers and blood sacrifice
Polytheism and Society at Athens
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In full moon, a heart may race - or not
Genes and Behaviour
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How to preach to the unconverted
Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion
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The anvil, but not those hammered
The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion
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The spa or pool after a hard day in class?
It could be mistaken for a plush hotel with its spa, steam room, Jacuzzi and deluxe rooms. But it is in fact Britain's most luxurious student digs - Wilmslow Park hall of residence in Manchester. The...
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Weary Ucea set to pull offer
Employers' body may bow out and leave vice-chancellors to settle locally. Phil Baty and Anthea Lipsett report Employers are poised to withdraw their national 12.6 per cent pay offer to academics and...
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Tony Harmar
Tony Harmar has been appointed to the oldest pharmacology chair in the UK at Edinburgh University Tony Harmar, head of Edinburgh University's School of Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed to the...
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On the move...
* Hugh Laddie , former senior judge of the Patents Court, has been appointed to a new chair in intellectual property law at University College London. He will continue in his role as consultant to...
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Journals study raps snobbery
Quality of an academic paper counts for more than the prestige of the publication in which it appears, says a study that raises questions about RAE and metrics criteria. Jessica Shepherd reports It...
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Dear Don... a little divine rejection
Civility costs nothing. But try telling that to the editors of academic journals whose rejection letters appear to be getting ruder, more sarcastic and increasingly scathing, writes Jessica Shepherd...
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Young blood loses out to the old guard
Younger and less experienced academics are finding it harder to make a name for themselves in a peer-review system weighted in favour of established research stars, academics have warned. Amid...
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Publish or perish: Teaching falls by wayside in pursuit of cash
The pressure on junior academics to "publish or perish" means that there is little encouragement to improve teaching, according to Hau Hing Chau, a lecturer and teaching fellow in product design at...