Industrial revelations
To make the case for cash, we must forge a consensus on how science should stimulate growth, argues Imran Khan
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Tongue-tied UK badly equipped to join in the conversation of nations
Amid falling applications to Ucas, languages are taking the biggest hit - bad news for our global standing, cautions Sir Adam Roberts
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A question of core values
Apple's e-textbooks are causing a stir, but an exciting non-commercial vision promises a bolder future for learners, argues Philipp Schmidt
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Diary
SheffieldThe Way of the WorldIf you live in a world of extravagant parties, outrageous fashion and scandalous gossip, image is everything. So when Mirabell, a man with a distinctly dubious reputation...
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The Pick - Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin
Credit: The Collection of Howard HodgkinVisions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard HodgkinAshmolean Museum, Oxford, until 22 AprilA group of dervishes, stoned or asleep, have assembled in a...
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Whose risk is it anyway?
According to well-informed sources, a risk without any apparent owner was found wandering around our campus last week. Although reports vary, it appears that this risk would have achieved a "...
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Research intelligence - The emeriti seizing a late licence to roam
Study finds many scholars believe their best work has come after retirement. Matthew Reisz 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
• In a glimpse of how some conservative politicians in the US view their higher education system, a high-profile Republican lamented the loss of the sector to "the Left" on 25 January, urging...
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Leader: When the whip came down
Mr Willetts' professed love for the arts and humanities disciplines looks rather like discipline of another stripe entirely
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From where I sit - Conservative casting
There is currently a lively debate in Germany about the potentially dubious impact of applying for research funding through committees. One cynic summed this up as "having to go through a casting...
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Appointments
University of HuddersfieldSusan KilcoyneA scientist who enjoys "physics on the edge" has been appointed professor of biomaterials at the University of Huddersfield. Susan Kilcoyne, formerly associate...
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Adrift from memory bliss
Kevin Fong is forced to come to terms with electronic isolation
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Hearts & minds
What makes us human? In major new books, an economist, a philosopher, an evolutionary biologist and two psychologists offer compelling - and very different - answers. Matthew Reisz writes
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The sin of omission was Boston's, not ours
Your readers will emerge much better informed about the Boston College-Belfast Project case having read Peter Geoghegan's informed piece rather than John Brewer's speculative letter on the subject (...