THE World University Rankings
"Is the ratio of servers to customers in a restaurant a good proxy for the quality of the food?"This was one of the rather scathing rhetorical questions posed by a US academic when I invited readers...
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Import/export focus puts Germany on top
Concern over lack of outward study as UK comes third in international index. John Morgan reports
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News in brief
London Metropolitan UniversitySenior staff under investigationLondon Metropolitan University is investigating two senior members of staff as well as its internal auditors following a fresh report...
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'Positive action', positive results
Trevor Phillips hails equality bill's potential to widen access to the academy. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Daytime TV: Recipe for success
Isabella Beeton was a pioneer, writes Gary Day, but she had little domestic bliss in her own life
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Top 20 biochemists
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999-October 2009
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One every 15 minutes
"It's a designated bus." That was the forceful response of Roger Placement, our Deputy Director of Logo Development, to the accusation that he had been guilty of "nominal misrepresentation".The row...
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Style dressed up as design
Fashion is a highly trained craft, not a celebrity trend, says Sally Feldman
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Research intelligence: Words of warning
A Stockholm scholar visits London to decry the threat to science posed by England's libel laws. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Accidental, but also elemental
Administrators may lack a career structure, but they are essential to universities and do not deserve to be disparaged
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From where I sit: Reading the budgetary runes
If India's economic policy is reflected in its annual budget, what does Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's budget tell us about the government's approach to education for 2010-11? Nothing big, the...
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Robert Lee, 1959-2010
A historian who transformed the study of the English rural poor, although he did not attend university until his mid-thirties, has died.Robert Lee was born on 30 October 1959 and educated at Thorpe...
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Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 1
I was surprised to read the piece by Geoff Lucas denouncing research showing that all other things being equal, state-school students obtain better degrees than independent-school pupils ("Uneven...
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Evidence undermines admissions rhetoric 2
Contrary to Geoff Lucas, I am delighted that Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, is using his position and influence to highlight the issue of fair admissions to university. The snippets of "...