A fitting database for THE world rankings
Thomson Reuters starts to build global resource of 'unprecedented sophistication'. Phil Baty reports
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I'll leave - how's that for impact?
UCU poll finds Government's agenda has scholars thinking of a career abroad. Zoë Corbyn reports
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News in brief
Doctoral training - Three centres to do the mathsThe Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has announced a £13 million investment to fund three Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs). The...
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Daytime TV: Stuff of legend
Gary Day remains unenlightened about the Turin Shroud, and finds Cupid's arrow wide of the mark
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Field rankings for Singapore
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1999-31 August 2009
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The core connection
Many in the humanities feel that their disciplines and relevance are under attack. Matthew Reisz asks if 'the best that has been thought and said' still has a place in today's universities
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Moving words
Cheerless and drab but 'full of amazing stuff'. The British Library Newspapers collection at Colindale is moving and also becoming increasingly digitised. Huw Richards wonders if researchers will...
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7 January 2010
Beyond measure? - Fears for humanities’ future in an impact-driven academy
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Firm foundations for global comparisons
Thomson Reuters begins building ‘unprecedented’ database that will inform THE’s World University Rankings. Phil Baty reports
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The insecure scholar: The Dawkins dilemma
The thought of becoming a public intellectual has many attractions but plenty of downsides, too
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Leeds strike on cards if arbitration fails
UCU demands that university rules out compulsory redundancies in cost-cutting plan. John Morgan reports
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Freedom of thought is all we foment
Even as he prepares to investigate the time the alleged Detroit bomber spent at UCL, Malcolm Grant argues that intellectual freedom on campus cannot be compromised
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THE Book of the Week - Who Was Jacques Derrida? An Intellectual Biography
Martin McQuillan applauds an outsider's appraisal of the giant of deconstruction
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I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
Martin Cohen is unimpressed by a work that staggers and falls between three stools
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The Dying and the Doctors: The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England
This book investigates the "medicalisation" of England in the 17th century, "the pattern by which the English turned from praying for spiritual physic to paying for medicines when struggling with...