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Interdisciplinarity is beneficial, but it's not the only way to advance knowledge. Specialisation remains essential, writes Robert A. Segal

Gary Day is impressed by Barbara's sales technique but depressed by a less-than-funny satire

Institutions and individuals across academia are embracing the green agenda. But it's still a long way to go to sustainability

A PhD student's run-in with a senior researcher sets Tim Birkhead thinking

As librarians are being retitled and rebranded, Tara Brabazon focuses on their vital role

Wes Streeting says a fresh approach to education could deliver academics and students from the age of discontent

In defending himself, Simon Singh hopes to help change a system that forces writers to retreat. He urges others to join the campaign

Gary Day on Stonehenge (according to Time Team), flower arranging (by the WI), memories and poetry

The DIUS is no more, the latest sign of the Government's narrow focus on business interests at the academy's expense

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto punctures a few national illusions

Daily attempts to locate adequate, affordable car parking close to work is driving Gloria Monday to distraction

Durham University's Chris Higgins and Anthony Forster question the wisdom of limits on the number of admissions

Gary Day winces at tales of holidays from hell, tics and swearing and the not-so-talented hopefuls

Students have to see that higher education is worth far more than what they pay in tuition fees and that it must be earned

Children and a job - men are starting to cope, writes Sally Feldman

By insisting our universities¡¯ sole role is to fire the economy, we have lost sight of their more civilising purpose, says Thomas Docherty

In a networked world, there is no excuse to continue to examine British theses by British academics only, argues Tara Brabazon

Maureen Skinner, like other delegates at the meeting of America¡¯s university administrators, shared her troubles in song amid the talk of tough times

The QAA makes some sound recommendations, but it ducks the most troublesome issues, say Geoffrey Alderman and Roger Brown

Gary Day sings an ode to manliness, from 11th-century swordplay to 21st-century six-packs

Knockabout popular debate appeals to few scholars, but if intellectuals disappear from the public eye, academia may suffer

Kevin Fong bemoans science's continuing inability to secure its future

How to thrive in recession - create a market in university course futures. Richard Middleton has a modest proposal

Outrage over MPs¡¯ expenses will be as nothing to the howls unleashed when people learn that ¡®education, education, education¡¯ was a false promise, says Gloria Monday

Santiago I?iguez outlines the ways in which universities must move to adapt to a changing world

Funding trends have crossed the Atlantic, but the UK should learn from, not slavishly repeat, America's mistakes, says Donald E. Heller

Policy Exchange wants to inflict a bankrupt ideology on London's students and communities, argues Cliff Snaith

The conventions and traditions of academia make it especially difficult to pinpoint what constitutes bullying behaviour

As they stand, university rankings do not make sense, says Alan Ryan

Our desire, individually and collectively, to respect students, colleagues and universities is the best way to drive up teaching quality, says Tara Brabazon

Patricia Lee, the wife of Simon Lee, former vice-chancellor of Leeds Met, responds to the media's slings and arrows

Gary Day asks what we can learn from Star Trek, enjoys a look at Wordsworth and laughs with women

The REF is moving in a direction that most of the sector is happy with, but there is still much at stake in the fine-tuning

Impatient editors risk upsetting manuscript referees, writes Tim Birkhead

Union confrontations will not help the sector achieve the financial stability that secures jobs, Bill Wakeham says

Fundraisers reap what university staff sow. Adrian Furnham explains why one alma mater will not receive a single penny from him

Universities ought to protect their lecturers by taking action against those who make unfounded allegations against them, argues Ian Greener

Having been forced into the forefront of administration, Gloria Monday realises that, on the whole, the overload is self-inflicted

David Robinson says Canada has much to teach us about the commercial imperative in academia and its dangers

Higher education standards are in the spotlight, but investigation has found no evidence of serious deficiencies, says Colin Riordan

Ann Singleton, Steve Tombs and David Whyte decry the insidious way in which academics are being used to monitor foreign students and staff

After years of battling the Nimbys, John Brooks formulated a campus plan that articulates Manchester Met's values

Gary Day on the injustice meted out to a whistleblower, medieval minds and meteorology

An intimate learning relationship is much valued. UK universities cannot afford to lose it - despite the pressures of massification

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto salutes the US military's intellectual proving ground

Stuart Hall supposedly asked one question that would determine whether a student joined the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon examines the importance of having passion for your subject