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Can San José show US academy the way?

Institution’s experiment combining classroom and online education aims to clear gridlocked ‘gateway’ courses

Part-time campus jobs: low pay, no respect?

Postgraduates recount ill-treatment by academics as well as bosses

Grant winners - 16 May 2013

Action Medical ResearchResearch GrantsAward winner: Doris-Eva BamiouInstitution: University College LondonValue: £19,140Auditory processing disorders: why do some children struggle to make sense of...

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Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Hitch in (and out of) time

Christopher Bigsby on the declining art of taking a hike

Pros and cons of the metrics system

The main problem with the research excellence framework is the huge amount of time and money that it consumes, distracting academics from scholarly activities and diverting funds to employ squads of...

Right royal appointment

It is regrettable that a publication written mainly for academics should choose to cover The Sunday Times’ version of the facts about the election of the Duke of York as a royal fellow of the Royal...

All bark, no bite?

The recent Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ draft guidance Alternative Providers: Specific Course Designation states on page 9: “The QAA safeguards academic standards and quality in UK...

Limited choice

Steve West’s contention that students need wide-ranging information to make their choice of university and course would be welcome if he were not simultaneously undermining it (“Working class law...

Advance warning

Pauline McGovern makes a good point about vivas (“Harsh interrogation”, Letters, 2 May). Their main purpose is to establish that candidates understand their work and can explain it in the context of...

Rearing window

In his review of Peter Mandler’s Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, Chris Knight characterises as “nonsense” Mead’s belief that the swaddling...

Ellen Gallagher: Freud meets his interlocutor on a black planet

Tate Modern exhibition AxMe shows African American artist talking back to race and gender history

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 16 May 2013

Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty

Philip Kemp on how the American film industry reacted variously to the rise of fascism in Germany

Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty by Lucien Jaume, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Biancamaria Fontana on the influences that shaped a French aristocrat’s ambiguous view of democracy from his studies of the American model