Animal use in experiments continues to rise
The number of animals used in scientific research in the UK rose by 2 per cent last year, figures from the Home Office show.
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You only live twice: Bond girl's painful journey to time renewed
An academic psychologist has joined forces with a former Bond girl and her film director husband to create a television documentary about the after-effects of brain injury.
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Framework 7 goes out with an €8 billion bang
The European Union will tomorrow launch a call for bids for €8.1 billion (£6.4 billion) in research funding as part of the final year of its Framework 7 programme.
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Decline and fall: Ucas confirms big drop in applications
University applications by English students have dropped by 10 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
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Inside Higher Ed: Google at the gates
By Steve Kolowich for Inside Higher Ed
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New powers of refusal announced for student visas
The government has announced plans to give border staff new powers to refuse international students a visa as part of a programme of targeted interviews for applicants.
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Cornwall revisits local authority funding link
Students in Cornwall could receive up to £3,000 each from their county council to support their university studies in a first for local authorities under current funding arrangements.
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Post-92s outscore traditional rivals on work goals
Some post-1992 universities have outperformed traditional institutions in the latest set of graduate-destination statistics.
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Nature wins libel battle with Egyptian physicist
A former journal editor has lost his libel claim against the journal Nature over an article reporting allegations that he had abused his position to publish numerous self-authored papers without...
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HE bill is needed, says Willetts, but 'who knows' when it will appear
The universities and science minister has said that a higher education bill will be needed to allow "dissolution" for post-1992 universities and to give new powers to the Office for Fair Access.
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The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World's Most Dangerous Fuel
Principles, priorities, practicalities: fine things all, but easier to discuss separately than together. Most of us want to protect the environment, for example. But which bits, and how best to do it...
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Contesting the Reformation
So the past may not be dead, and may not even be past; but we do usually reach a point where we and it can leave each other alone. We are interested in (say) the history of the Roman Empire, but for...
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Opium: Reality's Dark Dream
Jesper Vaczy Kragh discusses the ecstasy and the agony of humanity's ancient companion
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
From Benjamin Franklin to Ernest Hemingway, American expats have felt compelled to chronicle their sometimes simultaneous fascination with, and consternation at, the City of Light. More recent...
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Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979
Big books can be intimidating, and this is truly a behemoth. The fourth volume in Dominic Sandbrook's acclaimed history of the UK from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, Seasons in the Sun contains...