Grant winners
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: D. LoefflerInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £128,335Eigenvarieties for compact reductive groupsAward winner: S. YangInstitution...
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Blog Confidential: The bully has landed
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: The bully has landed
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Appointments
A specialist in emergency medicine at the University of Sheffield has become the first female academic in the UK to take up a professorship in the subject. Suzanne Mason, from Sheffield's School of...
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A student's right to know
Institutions and sector agencies should be more open with data to enable informed choices, says Paul Marshall
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Researchers, not their funders, must have the last word on their work
The practice of allowing sponsors to control research publication is rife despite being a corrupting 'form of fraud', says David Packham
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Education about the philosophy of science is too little and too late
Longitudinal teaching of the history of science, running from primary to tertiary level, is the key to producing creative scientists, argues Andrew Baker
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Words with no meaning
The French have a habit of entrusting translation to anyone with a bilingual dictionary, complains Michael Bulley
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The week in higher education
With their scruffy hairstyles and hooded tops, the young people sitting behind David Cameron as he delivered a speech at the University of East London looked like students. But all was not as it...
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Radical measures to bridge gap between supply and demand
Guild HE v-cs' plans to beat cap: unfunded places or 'foreign' fees for rich. Melanie Newman reports
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Rich list lengthens: National pay deal 'reason' for rise in six-figure incomes
It used to be an exclusive group, but despite the recession and calls for wage restraint, membership of higher education's £100,000-a-year club is rapidly expanding.Figures obtained from...
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Contractual ties trip up radiologist
Unapproved conference submission lands Sheffield researcher in strife. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Defenders of the academy? More like the status quo, says Lord Mandelson
First Secretary dismisses claims that funding cuts will bring sector 'to its knees'. John Morgan reports
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They don't come for the food: Sector' s reputation is paramount
Foreign students will abandon UK if standards are seen to slip, says Hepi director. John Morgan writes
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Hefce chief baffled but unbowed by cuts
The head of the funding council has admitted he is baffled by the £600 million of unspecified cuts to the higher education and science and research budgets, and said he had "spent a whole day" trying...
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Teaching is the highest purpose, argues thinker
Research is a "drag" on universities and an obstacle to their primary purpose: teaching students.So argued John Haldane, professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews, in a lecture titled "...