Winners rue £1bn prize
The universities that secured the highest funding from a government science investment fund have described their success as a poisoned chalice - because they have to raise a quarter of the cash. Sir...
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Latest international news
SA institutions are running on red ink Three of South Africa’s historically black universities have combined overdrafts of R193 million (£16 million), education minister Kader Asmal said....
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Latest UK news
Scotland drives e-science initiative Edinburgh and Glasgow universities are to collaborate in a National E-Science Centre. It is the first initiative in the government’s £98 million e-...
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From today's UK papers
Independent Dying Bangladeshis have been granted legal aid to sue British scientists in London this autumn for failing to discover dangerous levels of arsenic during a survey of their country's...
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New views on past portraits
Regeneration
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Swashbuckling adventures from a veteran pen
Postcards from Abroad
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Prejudice behind the pomp and baubles
Both rank and race dictated imperial order, writes John MacKenzie. Ornamentalism is a brave title. It might be construed as reflecting just surface pattern and design, the arabesques that gladden the...
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Pear tastes a little out of season
Environments and Historical Change
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Chips make a hash of some dim sums
Computers Ltd
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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 tale of a millionaire written by a Nobel laureate: "What made me take this trip to Africa?" The...
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Finding needles in biblical haystack
BibleWorks 4.0
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Think positive, think again
The Balance Within
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Laurie Taylor
Morning, Charles. Morning, Geoffrey. Good news then. Looks as though we might all be in for a nice little pay rise. How's that? Haven't you read about it? The government is allocating about £330...
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Letter: Dynamic research
I am no fan of the research assessment exercise, not least because it tends to regard numbers of outputs in a narrow range of refereed journals as evidence of research quality. However, the social...
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Letter: Prudence and the bill
You suggest that increased public spending on infrastructure could not be part of "any prudent economic policy" (Leader, THES , July 20). Private, voluntary, and not-for-profit provision is valuable...