The week in higher education
Giant sunshades, forests of artificial trees and other space-age technologies mooted as potential solutions to a "climate catastrophe" all have serious drawbacks, according to the Royal Society. A...
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Students get marks just for turning up
Universities accused of "bribing" undergraduates. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Watergate under the bridge for Class of 2013
Are the cultural references you make in class met with blank stares from students?Help is at hand from US academics, who have devised a guide to help bridge the generation gap between students and...
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Cash and quality debate faces UUK
Concerns over standards and funding to dominate 2009 conference. Melanie Newman reports
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Paedophilia research riles and titillates the academy
Winchester academic finds no consensus on controversial study, writes Melanie Newman
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Major errors prompt questions over Google Book Search's scholarly value
Google Book Search's mistakes provoke questions about its scholarly value. Matthew Reisz reports
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Tutors resolute despite lifelong death knell
Earth science tutors at the University of Bristol have said they will continue to teach lifelong learning courses - in spite of the university's decision to close these programmes because of reduced...
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Far-fetched formulae make science a 'joke'
The trend for newspapers to print serious-looking mathematical formulae for everything from the perfect joke to the perfect football penalty, or even whether Britney Spears' "boobline is too low",...
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Impact policy needs 'more evidence'
Campaign says Treasury must appoint science adviser to articulate strategies, writes Zoë Corbyn
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'Irrationally generous' NHS payoff ruling should forewarn universities
Lawyers counsel that large severance payments may be legally invalid, writes Melanie Newman
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Drayson/Goldacre debate: Can the press pass the test of scientific merit?
When ߣߣÊÓƵ reported the Science Minister's argument that UK science journalists were the "best in the world", many of our readers took exception.They did not agree with Lord Drayson'...
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Overseas briefing
InternationalForeign branches grow rapidlyThe number of universities operating "branch campuses" overseas has increased by 43 per cent in just three years, according to a report by the Observatory on...
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The green university at the heart of a living lab
The Masdar Institute aims to take the lead in the fight against climate change. Hannah Fearn writes
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Daytime TV: All the lonely people
Gary Day is moved by a film about those who die alone, and finds Miss Marple surprisingly alluring
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Field rankings for Canada
Ranked by relative citation impact. Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1999-2009