Film review: Poetry
Duncan Wu considers how the quiet dignity of a veteran actress creates an impressive drama
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Phil Scott, 1953-2011
As well as being an avid fan of Sunderland Football Club and a keen mountain biker, Phil Scott was strongly committed to science education.It was this passion that led him from the classroom to the...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of AberdeenWicked switch of the WestResearchers have discovered a DNA "switch" that turns on certain genes in cells that may show that Europeans are more predisposed to binge on fatty food...
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Odds and quads
These are among the more unusual items held by the John Hay Library at Brown University on Rhode Island.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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28 July 2011
Seeds of knowledge - The apps putting scholarship in the palm of your hand
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EPSRC starts to impose order on its universe
Some fields gain, some lose as council adjusts funding to ‘shape capability’. Paul Jump reports
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Mission impossible? Willetts to ‘convince arts and humanities how much we love them’
David Willetts has set out a three-point “to do†list for the coming months, making it a priority to convince academics in the arts and humanities “how much we love themâ€.
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Abertay Dundee announces retirement of suspended principal - again
The University of Abertay Dundee has reconfirmed the controversial retirement of its suspended principal Bernard King, and said that all legal claims between the two parties have been withdrawn.
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Dead heat in Cambridge vote on Willetts
A vote by the University of Cambridge’s governing “parliament†over whether to back a motion of no confidence in universities minister David Willetts has ended in a dead heat.
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Student visa curbs 'not based on evidence'
The government is making “optimistic†assumptions about the effect of its student visa policy and must do more to base its plans on evidence, a group of MPs has warned.
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Inside Higher Ed: Who is punished for plagiarism?
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Venture capital fund planned as Welsh universities follow lead of NYU
Two Welsh universities are to launch a £2 million venture capital fund to invest in local businesses and commercialise research.
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Reforms pose danger, but arts and humanities should prosper
The “huge risks†that are being taken with the future of the higher education sector have been highlighted in a critical review by the president of the British Academy.