Scottish play for power: high aims or pure politics?
Holyrood seeks power over admissions, governance and, via the SFC, courses. David Matthews reports
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On a train called Knowledge, travel opens eyes and minds
Gandhi is the inspiration for a rail-based college. Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi
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Virtual rise shrinks value of campus in US minds
The value of a traditional, campus-based degree is being eroded by rising confidence in online courses, a US survey has revealed.
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The father, mother or child of invention
Personal experience can drive scholars to push the boundaries in their chosen field, writes Jon Marcus
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Odds and Quads
The Bergman Österberg Union
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Appointments
University of WarwickSridhar SeetharamanWMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) has appointed Sridhar Seetharaman to the Tata Steel and Royal Academy of Engineering joint chair for research into...
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Oil and troubled waters
Spring is dawning in the Gulf and the UK academy’s links with the region’s repressive, anachronistic autocracies look increasingly questionable, says Christopher Davidson
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6 December 2012
Big opportunity, huge challenge - Will Moocs reshape the world?
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Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jon Turney salutes an exhaustive study of the rise and (relative) fall of a brilliant, bewildering mind
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Seven Psychopaths
Duncan Wu is amused by a frenzied bagatelle full of violence, political incorrectness and comic fury, signifying…itself, mostly
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Research intelligence - Matchmaking creates good vibrations
KTPs bring together businesses and universities for their mutual benefit
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Roy Penny, 1931-2012
A researcher and engineer who made important contributions to making nuclear power safer has died.
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Goldsmiths, University of LondonWall of remembranceA mural inspired by a London house fire that killed 13 young black people has been unveiled. Artists from Northern Ireland with a record of...
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UCL 'heart and soul' at risk in statute fight
A second stab at reforming path to dismissal draws UCU counter-attack. Elizabeth Gibney writes