Scientists launch meteorite search
Copenhagen University scientists are leading a Danish expedition in Greenland to search for fragments of a meteorite that crashed to the ground last December and which could help solve some mysteries...
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Ofsted report attacks 'sloppy' research
Education research in the United Kingdom is "disturbingly sloppy and partisan" and the Pounds 70 million of public money it costs could be put to better use with a huge rationalisation of research...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a novel by a religious Greek politician that was later turned into a film...
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Orwell's every word
The Complete Works of George Orwell
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... in black, white, red and green
George Orwell
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Speaking Volumes: The World Turned Upside Down
On Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down Which single book has meant most to me, intellectually? The truest response, for anyone who retains pretensions to mental vivacity, is: whatever one...
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Calvinist provocation
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
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Collage of a great artist
The Picasso Papers
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Seeing red among the white coats
Molecules of Emotion
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Creative account of scientific imagery
Insights of Genius
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A search for whales in the Sahara
At the Water's Edge
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Was it worth it, Ron?
One year after Ron Dearing published his report on the future of higher education, Alan Thomson asks him if he accepts the charge that its 1,700 pages have turned out to be a costly white elephant It...
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Guru hailed as a world-wide Weber
Worldly wise 9. The information age will widen the gap between rich and poor and erode the power of the state, Manuel Castells tells Martin Ince, on the Internet Not many academics would be upset at...
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Paymasters blunt the cutting edge
Mike Presdee tells Alison Utley how an Australian state government tried to suppress his research Academic freedom has always been under threat from some predator or other, but as universities...
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Students lead the third way
Campus radicalism never died it just got bored with party politics and found salvation in single issues such as animal welfare and rent levels Are students as radical as they used to be? In May, the...