The Psychopath Whisperer: Inside the Minds of Those Without a Conscience, by Kent Kiehl
Luna Centifanti welcomes a disentanglement of popular confusions over brain and behaviour

Luna Centifanti welcomes a disentanglement of popular confusions over brain and behaviour

Universities鈥 zeal for student feedback centres on NSS surveys and best-practice audits; those expressing critical views are increasingly unwelcome

Sit up and be counted - Has the student voice been tamed?

FranceExchange workshopMeasures to help more students, staff and PhD candidates at French universities spend time abroad have been explored at a special workshop on the subject in Paris. The...

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Dmitriy RumyninInstitution: University of WarwickValue: 拢152,563Hecke algebras and Kac-Moody groups: representations, lattices and...

A man who revolutionised public engagement with science has died

We speak to the new vice-provost (international) at University College London, a former High Commissioner to South Africa

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Teacher trainingGove announces reviewMichael Gove, the education secretary, has announced an independent review of the quality and effectiveness of initial teacher training courses. The review, which...
Robert Gellately鈥檚 review of Richard Evans鈥 Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Books, March) suggests that the author鈥檚 critique of the 鈥渨hat if鈥 genre throws the baby out with the bathwater...
Thanks to William Poole for his useful review (Books, 24 April) of Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo.I now realise that Thomas Harrison鈥檚 arca studiorum, 鈥渁 kind of...
Australia invented the 鈥渋ncome contingent contribution鈥 concept, a much better way to see the student contribution.When the Dearing Committee first debated the principle in 1996, the lifetime...
I write in response to the article 鈥淢anchester students take on economics curriculum in report鈥, News, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 22 April, and from the vantage point of having just organised a...
It is worth considering the pay of teaching fellows 鈥 frequently with PhDs, with a great deal of expertise in teaching and who carry at least some, if not all, of the responsibilities of curriculum...
Thank you for raising the old/new debate on the language of instruction in Arab universities (鈥淎llow us to learn in our own language, Algerian says鈥, News, 17 April).The article essentially points to...