Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, stirred up a storm in 2005 by suggesting that women are under-represented in science owing to "issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly...
When scientists attempt to play international politics, it usually ends in tears. The physicist Jo Rotblat, one of the first physicists to work on the Bomb, was one of the few to have bucked the...
James Wilsdon applauds an acute analysis of the mixed influence money has on scientific practice
The clue to some of this book's limitations, from a British point of view, is in the name. "We" who worry and "we" who eat are American (and middle class). Many very good books, received with...
A lecturer in the subject urges his peers to escape the commercial straitjacket. Matthew Reisz writes
Service outlining prospective students' likelihood of dropping out worries some, writes David Matthews
As many as 300 academics are chasing each junior research post at top institutions.
V-c: London Met's large Muslim population makes booze 'culturally sensitive'. David Matthews reports
Administrators to get status for good 'behaviours' in accreditation scheme. David Matthews writes
Academic study of these runes on the island of Orkney is among the work that is helping to boost the University of the Highlands and Islands' international standing in the field of Viking studies.
Sector experts cool on 'bureaucratic' engagement plans proposed by watchdog. Jack Grove reports
Some capital funding for universities is being reallocated to further education colleges as a result of the government's core-and-margin system.
Finance school's vice-principal is keener on a level playing field than private suitors, John Morgan hears
Investigation sparked by questions about staff qualifications and contact hours. Jack Grove writes
Scholars restate the public value of their discipline in age of shrinking mobility. Matthew Reisz writes