19 September 2013
Playing with fire - Green activism, big business and politics: an inflammable mixture for fracking research
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Odds and quads - 19 September 2013
St John’s College, Cambridge was established by charter in 1511 through the generosity of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)
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Campus round-up - 19 September 2013
Scientific resolutionThis image (main picture) is a 3D scan of a glass sculpture of a jellyfish created in the 19th century by father-and-son team Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. The German glass...
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Grant winners - 19 September 2013
Royal SocietyLeverhulme Trust Senior Research FellowshipsThe scheme is designed for scientists who would benefit from a period of full-time research without teaching and administrative duties....
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News in brief - 19 September 2013
TaiwanWrong formula for libelA court has dismissed a libel case against an academic whose research suggested that emissions from an industrial conglomerate’s chemical plants had raised cancer rates...
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David Barker, 1938-2013
A researcher who revolutionised the study of fetal development and its long-term impact on health has died
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Appointments - 19 September 2013
University of WolverhamptonGary Sheffield“I’ve been interested in military history for almost as long as I can remember,” said Gary Sheffield, who has been appointed professor of war studies at the...
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THE Scholarly Web - 19 September 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Open society
John Kaag is not up to speed with meetings culture (“Short is sweet”, Opinion, 12 September). It is not rude to have your laptop or tablet open during a meeting: in the era of the paperless office,...
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Plucky, blameless Belgians
In his review of July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin, A. W. Purdue says: “The question of which, if any, nation was responsible for the First World War remains open.” In 1919, someone said...
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Two years? Yes we can
In the article “In UK, two-year courses still too short a season” (News, 12 September), you mention a report by Ella Ritchie, former pro vice-chancellor for teaching and learning at Newcastle...
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Actually existing solution
Alessandra Lopez y Royo argues that “free market principles have changed and ruined the academy” (Opinion, 22 August), and states that she would “think long and hard” before advising others to carve...
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Practical lessons
I was disappointed with “Failure analysis” (From where I sit, 5 September). Failure anticipation and analysis in higher education teaching and learning, a part of what in engineering might be termed...
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Light or dark, still blue
Siana Bangura defends a “holistic” Oxbridge application process but offers no evidence to support her claims (Letters, 29 August). Peter Millican serves up a flawed thesis on the benefits of...
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Philistine spirit of today’s political age
When Joe Hockey, the Liberal Party opposition Treasury spokesman, ridiculed an Australian Research Council-funded project on the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel (“The God of Hegel’s Post-Kantian...