Whale of an evolutionary time
Patricia Piccininiās Sky Whale, created by Cameron Balloons in Bristol, was inspired by the artistās reflections on evolution.Although their ancestors had left the seas, mammals later āreturnedā to...
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UUK strives to avoid science/social spending dilemma
UUK aims to defend science and social mobility funds from spending review. John Morgan writes
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Great and good reject journal impact factor
The Wellcome Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are among the bodies calling for the use of the journal impact factor in funding, appointment and promotion decisions to be...
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Clever accounting: our gift to the world
Willetts adviser says coalition approach to finance may shape global academy. John Morgan reports
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Clocking off early
The Quality Assurance Agency is to issue new guidance on student workloads after research found that English undergraduates study for only three-quarters of the hours it recommends.A report by the...
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Titanic victory
Russell Group member is first to successfully appeal against full QAA review. Jack Grove reports
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The week in higher education
āMe, ugly? My Jimmy Choos make me feel BEAUTIFUL,ā ran the headline in the Daily Mailās Femail section on 9 May, above an article by Mary Beard, professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge,...
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'Lend me your ears shock'
Naked impactOne of our leading psychologists, Dr Fritz Itzig, is currently languishing in a police cell after a day-long series of attempts to increase the research impact of his work on short-term...
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Continuing missions: to explore postgrad worlds
Graduates from 1994 Group members are more likely than those of any other mission group to go on to taught postgraduate study, research has found
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Postgradās battle with Leeds over scholarship moves online
More than 350 people, including several academics, have signed a petition protesting against the University of Leedsā treatment of an international postgraduate student
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Fear of getting caught could reduce scientific misconduct
Lab audits could demonstrate integrity, 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity hears. By Elizabeth Gibney
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Israeli campaigners fear enemy within campus walls
Event on academic freedom identifies āone-sided far-leftist agitpropā
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Turf flaws
While John Furlong may have right on his side in his criticism of some aspects of recent English education policy, he is making the classic mistake of trying to persuade people that the grass is...
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Leader - Another boom bang-a-clanger by watchdog
The gulf between the QAA benchmark on study time and the hours students put in raises questions about its judgement
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On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century by Luc Ferry, translated by Andrew Brown
Jane OāGrady on how the rise of love as a central value of modern society is leading us to the brink of second humanism