Improved outcomes
Geoffrey Channon is quite right to warn us of the careless use of "neoliberal business-speak" such as delivery of courses (Letters, 8 December). However, he is wrong to include in that pernicious...
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Film review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Guy Ritchie's new film is a visceral, action-packed extravaganza. Davina Quinlivan enjoys the ride
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TV review: The Killing II
Sarah Lund is in danger of being upstaged by her sweaters in the hit series The Killing, says Gary Day
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Tom Troscianko, 1953-2011
Tom Troscianko was a fun, intellectually interesting academic who could "turn a trip into an adventure".Born in 1953, Professor Troscianko joined the British Steel Corporation in 1970 as a lab...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of GloucestershireSave the planet (and some cash)Plans for young people to help with projects promoting environmental sustainability in exchange for a discount on tuition fees will be...
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Odds and quads
This brass desk set embellished with ammunition shells belonged to Lieutenant General George Francis Milne (1866-1948), Commander-in-Chief of the British Salonika Army during the First World War.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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15 December 2011
Blooming marvellous - Dutch plan to grow prize specimens
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Soas takes legal steps to end occupation
The School of Oriental and African Studies has begun legal proceedings to end an occupation of one of its buildings.
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Hints of Higgs boson 'set scientific world agog’
“Tantalising hints” have been discovered of the fabled Higgs boson – but the data are not yet strong enough to make any conclusive statements about its existence.
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Course to address dearth of physics teachers
Thirty higher education institutions are to offer a new teacher training programme in physics and mathematics, it has been announced.
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New retraction of paper by husband and wife research team
Another paper authored by University of Manchester professor Sylvia Bulfone-Paus has been retracted – but this one does not feature the Russian postdoctoral researchers blamed for misconduct that led...
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Queen Mary academics pass latest ‘no confidence’ vote in Willetts
The senate of Queen Mary, University of London, has become the latest academic body to pass a vote of no confidence in universities and science minister David Willetts.
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About-face by Oxford University Press
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed