UCU moves closer to industrial action
Lecturers in the University and College Union have moved a step closer to taking industrial action after the union decided to urge members to reject a 1 per cent pay offer
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Wellcome puts trust in expanded open access
The Wellcome Trust has announced plans to extend its open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters
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THE podcast: 30 May 2013 issue review
Download the podcastScholarly criticism of mass tropical disease treatment campaigns, our popular Books section, and the Russell Group’s £500,000 ‘admission fee’ are up for discussion on this week’s...
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Neurons, you’re fired
Leaders lead, not their brains, argue Dirk Lindebaum and Mike Zundel
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Open-access initiatives to benefit the academy
A variety of schemes would allow the academy to reclaim control of its knowledge and labour, says Steffen Böhm
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30 May 2013
Hard to swallow - Keep doubts to yourselves, critics of mass drug programme told.
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News in brief - 30 May 2013
United StatesPolitical costsRepublicans in Ohio want to force its universities to grant in-state tuition fee rates to out-of-state students if the institutions have provided documents allowing...
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Poisonous web of suppression
I recently gave a lecture to undergraduates about how China is viewed globally. During the break, one student asked me: “Sir, could you tell me exactly what stories about China would interest the...
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Palestinian exile refuses to be boxed in
How Bashir Makhoul explores through art the plight of his countrymen
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Grant winners - 30 May 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Ellen NolteInstitution: RAND Europe (Cambridge office)Value: £99,939Learning for the NHS on...
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THE Scholarly Web - 30 May 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Appointments - 30 May 2013
University of OxfordAndy OrchardThe next Rawlinson and Bosworth professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford, a post once held by Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, has described the...
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State control to Major Tim
The final frontier to UK space exploration is political but exhilarating nevertheless, says Kevin Fong
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Revolutionary menu
Jamie Targett, the director of corporate affairs at the University of Poppleton, is, of course, right that David Willetts would not feel at home in the staff annex to its refectory (The Poppletonian...
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It’s good to talk
Rosemary Deem (Letters, 9 May) offers a constructive critique of the views expressed in “Whim and rigour” (25 April) and mentions my PhD research. It involves observing doctoral vivas in different...