Civil servants must face a naked truth: low ranking creates ill feeling
Status Syndrome
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that was made into a film in 1973: "The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in...
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The eyes have it, even if the message is a blur
The Visual Neurosciences (Volumes One and Two)
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The first step and the first word
Developmental Psychology - Children's Literacy Development
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Fuzzy logic and furry reasoning
Do Animals Think?
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An exorcism of long-dead diamond geezers
Brainwashing
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Bags of emotion but no real ties to bind
Applied Social Psychology - Emotion and Motivation - Social Cognition - Self and Social Identity
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Sell your unwanted submarine for net gain
Having already topped up tuition fees and wrung cash out of alumni, hard-up UK universities may soon have to borrow yet another money-spinning initiative from the US - selling cast-offs and...
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Official reports 'dish the dirt'
Universities have been forced to reveal a catalogue of falling standards, quality-control weaknesses and blunders after a Government initiative to reveal previously secret examiners' reports. The...
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Profile: Anthony Julius
Commercial litigator Anthony Julius is due to become chairman of the London Consortium on September 1 Anthony Julius, best known for defending Jewish author Deborah Lipstadt in the libel case brought...
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On the move
* The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has appointed: Leicester University vice-chancellor Bob Burgess chair from July; and John Cappock , former finance deputy director at the University...
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End 'willy-nilly' closures - MPs
MPs will call next week for regional panels to take control of which science subjects universities provide, The Times Higher can reveal. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee is due...
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Researchers pressured to tailor results for sponsors
At least one in ten scientists has been asked by a commercial backer to tailor their research conclusion or advice to meet the sponsor's requirements, according to a survey of university and...
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Time is ripe for PQA, Whitehall suggests
Universities would cease to use schools' predicted grades to select students within three years, under plans for a post-qualifications applications system drafted in Whitehall. Under the proposals,...
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Opposites attract?
Psychologists at Aberdeen University have found that students shown photos of members of the opposite sex digitally altered to look like them found the faces trustworthy but not lustworthy. Lisa...