Many organisations, including funding councils, charities and government departments, put significant sums into research. But one set of funders, the research councils, have responsibilities that run...
Does going to university enhance your earning power? Or are people who are likely to be big earners also likely to go to college? The truth is somewhere in between, but this week's report from the...
The RAE wastes resources, stifles innovation and undermines important research, argues Denis Noble. At the height of the public row over science funding in the 1980s, Max Perutz, the man responsible...
HE must overhaul its archaic pay structures before it can combat pay discrimination, writes Jocelyn Prudence. Much has been made of the gender pay gap in higher education and the extent to which job...
John Bryant. Professor in the school of biological sciences University of Exeter. "You're evil," the heckler shouted. "You're evil. You are the anti-ChristI" What had I done to merit this tirade?...
An Israeli historian who has supported the call for an academic boycott of his country believes he may be fired by the University of Haifa. Ilan Pappe said Haifa's dean of humanities had called for...
The integrity of the research assessment exercise suffered another setback this week as academics called for an inquiry into the dismal performance of pharmacology and physiology. The two disciplines...
The scientists who discover, describe and classify new species are facing extinction, writes Steve Farrar. According to the House of Lords science and technology select committee, systematic biology...
The Natural Environment Research Council has cancelled the summer round of its Standard Research Grant awards - worth £10 million - in a bid to address a £13.2 million financial shortfall, The...
Libraries told to turn over new leaf to survive The traditional role of British libraries as bastions of free reading and quiet study could end within 20 years unless they adapt to modern users’...
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a deliberately plain work: "The purpose of this book is to help officials in their use of written...
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