Be warned, no one will be able to put health training together again
Scholars must join doctors and nurses to stand against the health and social care bill before it dismantles the NHS, Woody Caan says
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Break the supplier chains
Ucas is a monopoly that cares more about protecting universities than helping students, says Steve Edwards. It must be reorganised
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Migrations
British art since 1500 would be a thin offering without the work of immigrant artists. It has made us what we are, says Harry Mount
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Diary
LondonShe Stoops to ConquerCountry gentleman Hardcastle thinks his friend's son, Charles Marlow, would be the perfect match for his daughter Kate until he finds himself mistaken by his prospective...
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The Pick - Golden Spider Silk
Golden Spider SilkVictoria and Albert Museum, London Until 5 JuneThe idea of weaving clothes out of spider silk has long been something of an eccentric fantasy.In 1710, Francois-Xavier Bon de Saint...
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Two 'I's in 'T-E-A-M'
"They'll make our university a laughing stock."That was the reaction of one of our senior administrators to the news that the last two remaining members of our Library staff had entered themselves in...
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Research Intelligence - Renaissance man's word to the wise
UCL's vice-provost urges research-intensives to enlighten as well as inform. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Accurate role models as hard to find as the Holy Grail itself
One professor has had enough of Hollywood's clichéd depictions of faculty, says Jon Marcus
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Off Piste - Long walks to freedom
Jeremy Black extols the physical - and psychological - benefits of a country stroll
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The week in higher education
• The University and College Union may suspend its work-to-rule industrial action on pension cuts in pre-1992 universities after talks with employers. Sally Hunt, the UCU general secretary, wrote to...
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Leader: Battle won, but maybe not the war
With the government poised to shelve its HE bill, opponents of pro-market plans have scored a victory, however partial or fleeting
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From where I sit - Lift off, in more ways than one
Financial reports in the media around the world take a remarkably similar approach, or so it seems from China. The slick graphics that daily illustrate the swings in fortune of the FTSE or Hang Seng...
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Appointments
University of PortsmouthAndy ThorpeAn economist whose previous research has focused on such indelicate topics as methane emissions from animals has been appointed associate dean for research at the...
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Still room for merit alone?
Alan Ryan fears for the deserving if US-style admissions make it to the UK