18 July 2013
Five-year test - Can India raise standards while boosting student numbers?
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Grant winners - 18 July 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: David CassidyInstitution: University College LondonValue: £147,622Gravitational free-fall experiments with positroniumAward winner: Ingrid...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Role of the dice
Tiffany Taylor weighs the evidence of the importance of random changes in species development
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Australian neutral territory
The view from Down Under on what lies ahead for universities looks familiar, finds Roger Brown
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Red in peril
Roger Morgan on how the liberal doyen Berlin blackballed Deutscher, the ‘intolerable’ Red
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Market misalignment
The marketeers’ blandishments are reducing to ashes the pursuit of knowledge and the very idea of the university, argues Fred Inglis, who looks on their works and despairs
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News in brief
Saudi Arabian scholarship programmeAmerica, here they comeHuge investment by the government of Saudi Arabia in overseas scholarships brought a flood of young Saudis to the US, an analysis suggests....
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Branch breaking point? Investor abandons Napier's Hong Kong venture
Edinburgh Napier outpost uncertain after Hong Kong land use dispute. David Matthews reports
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Wise open space
Minerva intends to reinvent the university as a global experience of elite education with critical thinking at the core. Chris Parr hears the plans
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Research intelligence - Fresh digital chapter
A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf
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Grant winners
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: David CassidyInstitution: University College LondonValue: £147,622Gravitational free-fall experiments with positroniumAward winner: Ingrid...
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Obituary - Dido Davies
An acclaimed academic biographer who went on to write a series of guides to sexual technique has diedDido Davies was born on 5 October 1953 to a playwright and an eccentric actress and was brought up...