Too much research concentration may have contributed to the erosion of the US' position as a "colossus of science".A new report by Thomson Reuters shows that although the average citation impact of...
Conference debates role of alternative therapies in mental health services. Matthew Reisz reports
UCET chief warns against 'damaging' plans to switch funding to schools. Sarah Cunnane reports
After the funding cuts come the cost-saving measures: academics at the University of Aberdeen have been asked to take on cleaning duties in an attempt to save money.Staff have been ordered to dispose...
Published research'Flawed' paper pulledA paper describing a technique to identify all metabolic activity in a population of cells has been retracted, even though its main corresponding author insists...
Prize for lecturer despite his application for judicial review in harassment case. Hannah Fearn reports
The narrow make-up of the Browne panel provides evidence of a profound shift in higher education policymaking, says Gareth Dale
From BBC Radio 4 to St Peter's, Oxford, Mark Damazer has worked to put scholarship in the spotlight. Matthew Reisz reports
Duncan Wu on the sheer delight of Arcimboldo's punning, painstaking and peerless portraits
Those who sleep rough have pasts full of pain. Gary Day watches a fight for survival in lives of misery
LondonThe Train DriverAthol Fugard, probably South Africa's best-known dramatist, produced definitive exposés of labour conditions and miscegenation laws under apartheid in plays such as Boesman and...
High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and CultureThe Wellcome Collection, London, until February 2011"Every society", claims curator Mike Jay, "is a high society." A Cypriot "juglet" from...
Suggestions that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has almost totally capitulated to its critics by substantially redefining the notion of impact have been hotly denied by Brian Bryan...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a dazzling display of gridiron, greatness and God
Although lecturers are wary of the online courses now seen as financial lifelines, they may offer unexpected scholarly benefits