Science

Academic salaries have increased by 12.6% in two years, but can the rises be sustained? Market differences are already beginning to show, with significant variations in pay between universities just miles apart. Hannah Fearn and Melanie Newman add up the figures (see related files on the right)

13 March

Interactive tools help students most by allowing lecturers to offer them more personal attention, says Jochen Runde

13 March

Whitehall's creative industries strategy is welcome, but where is its support for Britain's athletic endeavours, asks Simon Chadwick

6 March

Quality teaching, like quality research, requires funding input, say Russell Group chiefs Malcolm Grant and Wendy Piatt

6 March

Academics are at the very heart of the knowledge economy, but just how far should they and their institutions go in the commercial exploitation of their ideas? Hannah Fearn explores the potential costs and benefits

28 February

The REF will leave the funding council with many of the same problems that plagued the RAE, argues Ian Marshall

28 February

Clear punctuation and compound constructions in titles give research papers an immediate visual impact, says James Hartley

28 February