The week in higher education
• "Stinking rich" colleges at the University of Cambridge are branching out into some unusual commercial activities, according to The Times columnist Richard Morrison, in an article published on 22...
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Leader: Want gold? Let's see some cash
The move to open access should not mean cuts to research: the government and industry could pitch in to cover the transition
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From Where I Sit - Big Bong theory
Two memoirs by Indian scholars who spent many years at Oxbridge offer salutary insights into life at the ancient universities. Tapan Raychaudhuri, author of The World in Our Time and a professor of...
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Odds and quads
These items form part of the records of the Mission to Seafarers, now held by Hull University Archives at the Hull History Centre.
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Appointments
University of LincolnJohn DrakakisJohn Drakakis, the new visiting professor of English studies at the University of Lincoln, said he was "flattered" to be offered the role. Professor Drakakis, who is...
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Accelerated learning
As students cram for scarce undergraduate places, private institutions proliferate and research outputs rise rapidly, will China’s impressive growth spurts bring gains in quality as well as quantity...
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Morocco mission aims to build bridges and silence scepticism
British scholars head for North Africa to forge links with territory neglected by UK sector. David Matthews reports
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Raiders of the lost archives
In the age of digitisation, the ‘search’ part of research has become a virtual experience. Although progress has many advantages, John Sutherland laments the end of the scholar-adventurer and the...
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28 June 2012
Flat out - China’s exhaustive - and exhausting - drive for improvement
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Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye
Later works, photographic ones in particular, redefine the creator of The Scream as a 20th-century artist, observes Alex Danchev
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Conducting material
Malcolm Gillies on music, leadership and youth
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'Inconvenient truths' of open-access plans (1 of 2)
The Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings led by Dame Janet Finch concludes that there should be a "clear policy direction" favouring open access. This has been welcomed by...
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'Inconvenient truths' of open-access plans (2 of 2)
The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes the Finch report's extensive acknowledgement that learned societies contribute significantly to developing scholarly endeavour and public engagement. They are...
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Pensions, not politics
As a delegate to the University and College Union congress from the branch that moved the "work-to-contract" motion for staff in the Universities Superannuation Scheme, I would like to address some...
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Pound-for-pound power
You might have thought that someone with Michael Farthing's surname would be sensitive to the point that size is not a determinant of quality ("Too lightweight for the title", Opinion, 21 June). The...