US endowments return to path of healthy growth
The value of endowment funds at US colleges and universities rose by an inflation-busting average of 11.9 per cent last year, with Harvard University's fund worth the most at $.6 billion (£17.1...
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Statisticians worried by field's rate of decline
Their field may be popularly dismissed as one step worse than lies and damned lies, but statisticians fear that unless something is done to revive their flagging discipline, the UK's academy, economy...
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'Terrible' ESRC grant survey is extended
Brief demand-management consultation produces little consensus, lots of dismay. Paul Jump reports
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News in brief
AppointmentsCumbria names new chiefThe University of Cumbria has appointed a new vice-chancellor, following a period of turmoil in its leadership and finances. Cumbria has hired Peter Strike, who is...
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Middlesex denies fraud cover-up
'Concerned stakeholders' question official silence over sacking of finance officer. John Morgan writes
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Beyond the boundaries
Institutions will not get the best employees if limits regarding language or nationality are imposed, argues Ryszard Piotrowicz
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Top chemists of the past decade
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) have proclaimed this to be the International Year of...
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Mordecai's mordant vision
The film of Barney's Version is bringing the satiric worldview of Canada's literary lion to a new audience, writes Norman Ravvin
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Diary
LondonInside ArtForty-eight works created by young men detained at Feltham Young Offenders Institution - paintings, prints, sculptures, drawings and collages - have been put on display in the...
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The Pick - Susan Hiller
Credit: Tate Photography/Sam DrakeSusan HillerTate Britain, London, until 15 MaySusan Hiller was born in the US in 1940 and started life as an anthropologist. From the Freud Museum (1991-96), one of...
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We relish 'dog's breakfast': shock claim
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has responded in positive terms to the recent assertion by John Denham, the former universities minister, that the present government's...
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Gee up the global vision
Higher education is still far from borderless, argues Malcolm Gillies
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Leader: Drop the guessing games
The process of applying for a university place is long past its use-by date. It's time for post-qualifications applications
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Research intelligence - Acid test: clearly label a successful formula
Royal Society of Chemistry head tells Paul Jump about the discipline's fight to raise its profile
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Off Piste - Naval gazing
Stuart Anderson, whose love of ships launched early and never foundered, still delights in combining work travel with visits to historic vessels globally