Preservation of this national asset must be your top priority
To help the new universities secretary, Steve Smith outlines the issues vital to the continued health of UK higher education
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Full fathom five
Gary Day looks through his periscope at submarine movies, in which John Mills often plays a leading role
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PILED HIGHER AND DEEPER
Cartoon by Cham
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Our sausage is better than yours!
"We are already consulting our libel lawyers." That was the immediate reaction of our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, to the news that another institution of higher education was...
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Defender of the faith
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on a public good that the UK would not accept
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Research intelligence - Help make the desert bloom
Saudi Arabia wants UK researchers to join its work tackling pressing national problems. Zoe Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste - From the mindfulness of babes
Crystal N. Feimster has a live-in Zen master: her four-year-old son Charles, who constantly reminds her of the joys of living in the now
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Leader: Mavericks won't be corralled
Academics chafe at being forced into open-plan offices, often with good reason. Can their home-working solutions be supported?
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From where I sit - With all due disrespect
When the congress was over, the party began: to the sounds of Rage Against the Machine, DJane Bossa Nova raised a revolutionary fist, inciting the dancing crowd to rage against the dying light of...
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Obituary - Roger Van Noorden, 1939-2010
A leading academic administrator and inspirational teacher of economics has died. Roger Van Noorden was born in London on 8 July 1939 and spent the war years in Buckinghamshire before returning to...
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Oxford Report - Goodbye readers, hello merit pay
Task force calls for an end to internal promotions to professorships. Melanie Newman reports
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Procurement strategy: look after the pennies
Next year's recurrent grant announcement signals difficult times ahead for England's academy. Of course, it is just the start.To meet the challenges ahead, we will have to be more creative with the...
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The common touch
Richard Overy's article on the defence of history ("The historical present", 29 April) tries hard to be even-handed, but exposes a tension within the discipline over what "history" is. He seems...
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Academy-lit
"It's time to put the point back into the pen of scholarly writing" (6 May) illustrates several excellent points about specialist publications in academic journals and books.Perhaps the disconnect...