Research intelligence - When predicting winners, it pays to follow the papers trail
Nobel prize forecasts for 2011 utilise highly referenced 'citation laureates'. Paul Jump reports

Nobel prize forecasts for 2011 utilise highly referenced 'citation laureates'. Paul Jump reports
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Social Policy AssociationSue DuncanSue Duncan, who was the UK's first chief government social researcher, has been named the new president of the UK Social Policy Association. Professor Duncan, who...

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Your article on the University of Greenwich's concerns about the 20 per cent drop in the number of international students applying for its places in 2011-12 filled us with trepidation ("Visa reform...
The casual reader of Simon Lee's article "'Progressive' austerity and the obvious death of Lib Dem England" (15 September) could be forgiven for supposing that the UK had a Liberal Democrat-dominated...
I am writing to clarify some points raised by your article about Richmond, The American International University in London and its recent probationary status with the Middle States Commission on...
It was disappointing that the report celebrating Toyota as a model of efficiency made no reference to its repeated product recalls ("Academic efficiency drive may put Toyota at the wheel", 15...
You write that higher education institutions should be able to develop unique brands because the retail industry has at least 150 distinctive marques ("Swap camels for custom vehicles", 8 September...
The letter from Gijsbert Stoet ("Rewarding equality", 1 September) points out that gender ratios in academia may simply reflect different choices made by women and men, who tend to be influenced...
I have just read your coverage about the exemplary punishment inflicted by the London School of Economics on Satoshi Kanazawa for the silly claim that black women are genetically uglier than other...
Both the debates about David Starkey's Newsnight appearance (THE passim) and the work of Satoshi Kanazawa are being discussed in terms of professionalism and whether academics are entitled to express...

Duncan Wu finds drama in the smallest gesture in a finely nuanced account of an unexpected passion

Hilary Mantel's work is suffused with undercurrents and with what might have been, says Gary Day