Tickets for a bumpy ride
Higher education is becoming such fun.Things were once so simple: institutions selected students, some people taught them, other people examined them and they went off with degrees, or not.A move to...
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Outside the ticked box
While I appreciate Tim Birkhead's critique of the "box-ticking culture" in secondary education and share his concerns about the dangers of its encroachment into higher education ("This is customer...
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Conference pairs like minds
Vinicius Licks identifies four essentials to get the world talking about Brazilian academics' ideas ("Don't always follow the crowd", 9 December). But a fifth one is missing. Junior and senior...
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A fresh look at publishing
To see a journal where the article format was redesigned for digital distribution, as discussed in the article "Rip it up and start again" (16 December), take a look at Optics Express (www....
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Why fight old battles?
It seems that 30 years after the death of C.P. Snow we are still fighting the somewhat pointless (liberal) arts versus science battle ("Guiding light in death's shadow"; "It's the breadth that...
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Where research shares the driver's seat with industry
Lord Bhattacharyya's vision of the future fuels Warwick Manufacturing Group, reports Paul Jump
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For discontented Lib Dems, Tories offer the right home
Analysis shows that defectors find happiness with Conservatives, not Labour. Simon Baker reports
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Scholars chip in with a defence of freedom
Academics at the University of Cambridge have been praised for their staunch defence of academic freedom after research on bank-card security was criticised by an industry group.Melanie Johnson,...
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Headless maybe, but not mindless
A lecturer and his work have a starring role in a very novel thriller. Paul Jump gets the backstory
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News in brief
Freedom of InformationJisc plots a way through the jungleResearchers are being offered new advice on how to handle Freedom of Information requests for data. The Joint Information Systems Committee,...
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Campus round-up
Royal Holloway, University of LondonWarm spots in the big chillResearchers may have come a step closer to understanding how life on Earth survived between 600 and 700 million years ago when the...
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An academic angle on issues in a periodical for the people
Online magazine aims to bridge gap between journals and journalism. Matthew Reisz writes
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College without leaving high school: a radical vision for higher delivery
Simon Baker hears a headteacher's plans to offer degree courses from her rural secondary school
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In Hong Kong, global aims need state aid
Report says the city's institutions require help to assert international strength. John Morgan writes
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Study shows XX factor effect on hiring committees
Including women on selection committees for senior professorial posts improves female candidates' chances of success, a study of academic appointments at Spanish universities has found.Selections for...