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28 July 2011
Seeds of knowledge - The apps putting scholarship in the palm of your hand
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EPSRC starts to impose order on its universe
Some fields gain, some lose as council adjusts funding to ‘shape capability’. Paul Jump reports
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Mission impossible? Willetts to ‘convince arts and humanities how much we love them’
David Willetts has set out a three-point “to do” list for the coming months, making it a priority to convince academics in the arts and humanities “how much we love them”.
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Abertay Dundee announces retirement of suspended principal - again
The University of Abertay Dundee has reconfirmed the controversial retirement of its suspended principal Bernard King, and said that all legal claims between the two parties have been withdrawn.
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Dead heat in Cambridge vote on Willetts
A vote by the University of Cambridge’s governing “parliament” over whether to back a motion of no confidence in universities minister David Willetts has ended in a dead heat.
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Student visa curbs 'not based on evidence'
The government is making “optimistic” assumptions about the effect of its student visa policy and must do more to base its plans on evidence, a group of MPs has warned.
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Inside Higher Ed: Who is punished for plagiarism?
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Venture capital fund planned as Welsh universities follow lead of NYU
Two Welsh universities are to launch a £2 million venture capital fund to invest in local businesses and commercialise research.
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Reforms pose danger, but arts and humanities should prosper
The “huge risks” that are being taken with the future of the higher education sector have been highlighted in a critical review by the president of the British Academy.
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A third of people have no qualifications in some parts of Britain, study finds
The proportion of the population without any educational qualifications is as high as one in three in some parliamentary constituencies, an analysis has shown.
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A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
Can a philosophical approach to the climate issue have a practical impact? wonders Steve Yearley
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The Black Legend of Prince Rupert's Dog: Witchcraft and Propaganda During the English Civil War
A tale of a royal's best friend whose reputation was manipulated to scare the enemy delights
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Speciesism, Painism and Happiness: A Morality for the Twenty-First Century
It's generous of Peter Singer to remind us that, even if he has talked a lot about the concept, the term "speciesism" isn't his but Richard Ryder's, coined in 1970 while - so we're told - lying in...
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The Official History of the British Civil Service: Reforming the Civil Service, Volume 1: The Fulton Years, 1966-81
The Official History Programme was established in 1908 to record and learn lessons from the Boer and Russo-Japanese wars, and continued in 1919 with a series of wartime histories. In 1957, the...