Direction-of-travel writer
I noticed the travelators in our wonderfully developed Sainsbury's here in Darlington repeatedly instruct users to "Please face the direction of travel". I am fairly certain this has been sampled...
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Leader: Clarity begins at home
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the UK's institutions and researchers must be fearless in shining a light on misconduct
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Research Intelligence - Alt-metrics: fairer, faster impact data?
Scholars unhappy with 'crude' journal metrics are looking to Mendeley and its ilk. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts, the universities and science minister, ushered in A-level results and clearing by calling for elite universities such as Oxford and Cambridge to expand. In comments reported by The...
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From where I sit - Model resistance
Since February, tens of thousands of Quebec students have been on strike against tuition increases that will raise their fees by 82 per cent over seven years. The strike has been so successful that...
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Off Piste - Vicious cycle
With cycling enjoying huge popularity after the successes of Bradley Wiggins and other Olympians, Thomas Docherty explores how the pain, endurance and concentration demanded by the sport’s premier...
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Odds and quads
These pictures of women - one wearing a blue silk headdress, the other displaying her gold engagement jewellery and hennaed hands - were taken in rural Turkey in the 1980s.
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Appointments
University of WestminsterDavid DernieDavid Dernie has been made dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster. He joins from De Montfort University,...
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Poachers' paradise
The economic woes of public universities in the US present ‘a prime opportunity’ for institutions with money to swoop in and snatch up staff. Jon Marcus reports
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23 August 2012
Sold a lemon - The sour taste of research fraud - and what universities can do about it
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The Imposter
Even more fascinating than the con artists who assume others’ identities are the people who are desperate to believe them, suggests Rohan McWilliam
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How To Be Gay
Almost despite himself, Ken Plummer is beguiled by an eloquent elegy for queerdom’s camp old days
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Over there
Alan Ryan on the benefits of emigration for the UK’s huddled student masses
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Malcolm Barry, 1950-2012
A leading champion of continuing education has died.Malcolm Barry was born on 22 April 1950 and educated at Greenford County Grammar School in London, where he became school captain.A double bassist...