Research Intelligence - Briefing encounters
Pairing rapid-response scientific expertise with breaking news stories is the Science Media Centre's core mission. Paul Jump reports
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Off Piste - Fascinating rhythm
A Dance to the Music of Time offers profound insights into life's contingencies and the nature of Englishness in the 20th century, writes Vernon Bogdanor
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The week in higher education
Statistics showing that the number of applicants from continental Europe to UK universities has risen 5.8 per cent this year provoked a shudder at The Daily Telegraph on 3 June. Invoking the spectre...
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Leader: Anthony's Dream School
Recipe for success: take a pinch of existing material, sprinkle a little academic stardust and charge punters £18,000 a year
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From where I sit - Digital killing the lecturing stars
I have a sneaking suspicion that we university lecturers are so good at incorporating new media into our work that we may do ourselves out of a job.When I was an undergraduate student, the only...
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Appointments
University of WolverhamptonJenni JonesA lecturer who believes it is good to talk has received a national award in recognition of her work on a mentoring scheme for West Midlands Police. Jenni Jones,...
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Marx, Pandora & the Tower of Porn
The truth is in here, but so too are countless myths: Colin Higgins on the strange world of the academic library, where cod-antique book curses jostle for shelf space with thieves, tourists and...
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Are friends electric?
Could robots offer our ageing populations care in their dotage, even love? Can machines genuinely become social beings? Will androids one day dream of electric sheep? Kathleen Richardson examines the...
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Sally, united we stand: you know the rest (1 of 2)
The University and College Union congress in Harrogate articulated members' anger and determination to fight education cuts and privatisation, not as a special case but as part of the defence of...
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Agony if cap doesn't fit
When it comes to the battle over USS reform, am I alone in having "reverse worries" about the three main issues? While a move from final-salary to career-average deals (albeit with adjusted accruals...
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PC persecution
The statement condemning the "bad science" of Satoshi Kanazawa, evolutionary psychologist and reader in the Institute of Management at the London School of Economics, is patently disingenuous ("...
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Trivial pursuit
I've never before - in 40-odd years of writing books - asked for the right of reply to a review, but I feel I have to in the case of James Stevens Curl's extraordinary notice of The Battle of the...
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Artificial flavour
Roger Brown offers a dystopian vision of the future of higher education in the light of forthcoming policy changes ("Quality street blues", 2 June). Many in the sector will share his pessimism.The...
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Hidden benefits
I understand Julia Swindells' frustration with anonymous reviews of manuscripts and grant proposals ("Critics, show yourselves", Letters, 2 June), but revealing the identity of reviewers would cause...
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Sally, united we stand: you know the rest (2 of 2)
Delegates at the UCU congress voted overwhelmingly for a motion to reject the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia's (EUMC) working definition of anti-Semitism, a set of...