Vague gestures
Jonathan Steinberg ("Cult of personalities", 19 July) claims that the "collapse of the Soviet Union brought down the whole edifice of social science". This is more puzzling than claiming that...
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Caution: NHS work in progress
For six years the government has targeted the decline in UK health research. But a law putting GPs in charge of allocating local resources has left many clinicians fearing that those advances could...
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Year of living dangerously
In puritan times, says Thomas Docherty, we need sabbaticals more than ever
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Research Intelligence - 'Predators' who lurk in plain cite
Paul Jump on dubious open-access journals keen to attract unwary academics - and their cash
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Hoax history is bunk but there are truths to be learned from it
Lying About the Past course aims to teach students method and scepticism. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
Regent's College received glowing praise after it became the latest private institution to secure degree-awarding powers. A leader in The Times on July declared that the award "introduces a welcome...
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Leader: Young guns can't go for it
Hefce figures show that the proportion of scholars under 30 is falling: the implications for the sector's future could be severe
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From Where I Sit - Corridors of uncertainty
At a symposium I attended recently, a senior academic apologised in advance if the paper she was delivering wasn't up to scratch. She'd had a harrowing week, she said, as sweeping cuts had been...
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Odds and Quads
The main illustration is taken from the Ripley Scroll (one of about 20 surviving copies) held by the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge.Drawing on the work of the author and alchemist...
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Appointments
University of SouthamptonJenny FlemingAn academic who has spent more than 15 years working with police agencies worldwide on a number of interdisciplinary topics has become co-director of a...
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To serve and reflect
In the US academy, engagement with the surrounding community and learning through service are 150-year-old ideals whose time has come again - but is the driving force altruism or self-interest?
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2 August 2012
A&E and R&D - Building research into the fabric of the NHS
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The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense
A season dedicated to the UK’s greatest film-maker shows that there is more to his sensibility than misogyny, Davina Quinlivan argues
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Anne Dunn, 1950-2012
A successful broadcaster who went on to become a leading academic expert in the field has died.Anne Dunn was born in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire on 12 August 1950 and educated at St Paul's Girls...