German leaders, not students, reject charges
Opposition to tuition fees among German students is waning as they reap the benefits of extra educational funds, a conference has heard.
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Tasty morsels on the social science menu
Leading social scientists are distilling some of their biggest ideas into an easily digestible series of podcast interviews.
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Pianist wants comeback as review hits bum notes
Middlesex fellow faces 'Kafkaesque' scenario over failure to win Follow-on cash. Paul Jump writes
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Raising the tone
A university was the venue for an aerial concert by brass players from the Lancashire Sinfonietta. Five of the musicians donned hard hats and harnesses to scale the climbing wall at Lancaster...
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Unicorns and sex? Out of this world
Peer-reviewed scholarship takes on demons and ghosts. Matthew Reisz prepares for an encounter
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News in brief
Patent protectionEuropean plan threatens spin-offsHigh-tech spin-offs may find it more expensive to protect their inventions if proposals to create a single European patent go ahead, MPs have said....
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Scholar lost in desert of despair guided by beacon of hope to oasis
Matthew Reisz meets a refugee academic given new life, just like the one saved by THE readers' support
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News in brief
AustraliaTo boldly have another goA struggling university will undergo a "bold and exciting" restructure to boost its standing, according to its vice-chancellor. Peter Dawkins, head of Victoria...
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It is the East, and Rising Sun is the new object of affection
Jack Grove reports from Tokyo on De Montfort's canny cultural diplomacy
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHAnglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanitiesJoint applications for up to €40,000 each have now been...
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V-cs: useless or priceless?
Fred Inglis and Nicola Dandridge offer diametrically opposed views of the quality and value of the academy’s leaders
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Stand up for shelf life
Badger your MP and kick up a fuss: London Met's treatment of the Women's Library must be challenged, argues June Purvis
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Hell on Earth: shock finding
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."That was the benign response of Professor B.D. Trott, the Head of our Department of Tourism, to reports that a new institute at the University of Central...
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REF may push players towards open goal
But publishers dismiss Willetts’ suggestion as not a ‘game changer’. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: Don't lose focus on the day job
Vice-chancellors have to show that their rewards are appropriate and their outside positions (and earnings) are no distraction