Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, by Shane O’Mara
Book of the week: Ethics aside, no useful information is to be gained from ‘coercive questioning’, says Steven Rose

Book of the week: Ethics aside, no useful information is to be gained from ‘coercive questioning’, says Steven Rose

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Anarchist academic reflects on what her recent brush with the law says about threats to academic freedom

Is the biomedical research facility dubbed ‘Sir Paul’s cathedral’ built on sound foundations?

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The media’s sneering attacks on the Labour leader’s limited tertiary study fail to recognise that academic qualifications are not political science, says Martin McQuillan
When the government introduced new policies for higher education fees, it ignored warnings that repayment rates would be much lower than it had claimed. Now that it has acknowledged those lower...
Your anonymous correspondent’s account of reviewing for the research excellence framework substantially reflects my own experience as a panellist in 2008 who was offered the chance to be renominated...
There are plenty of things that drive me nuts about the higher education sphere and its planetary system, but one of the worst offenders is the contention by “employers” that students lack “skills”...