Cable welcomes entrepreneurial 'upsurge'
Growth in university enterprise societies marks a change

Growth in university enterprise societies marks a change

Victorian ‘penny dreadfuls’ offer priceless insights into social history
Ferdinand von Prondzynski is right in pointing out that the notion of “knowledge for knowledge’s sake†is not a useful justification for scholarly activities or universities themselves (“Spinach for...

The XX files - Global Gender Index finds inequality on a worldwide scale.

All across the US, colleges and universities are sending out their letters of acceptance and rejection. There will be tears

John Elmes investigates the growth in university-sponsored academies

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Colin CrumpInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £188,516Developing super-resolution microscopy for the analysis of virus...

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An inspirational teacher and authority on nanoscience has died

Rather than the academy relaxing its ethical standards, perhaps areas of the media need to raise their game, argues Keith Richards

It’s not what you teach but how that matters, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The director returns to his roots in the screwball sex comedy I’m So Excited. By Lucy Bolton

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Chris Knight on an anthropologist whose theories were embraced then shunned by the US military

Susan Hogan on a challenge to analyses of 19th-century politics that marginalise the role of women