Prometheus
Three decades after confronting our anxieties about reproduction in Alien, Sir Ridley Scott returns to the universe of his classic sci-fi horror film. Davina Quinlivan considers the franchise and...
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Research Intelligence - For all their sakes, and science's too
Response to EU law will spur the UK's leading role in reducing animal testing. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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From Where I Sit - Female role model
"We enjoy your classes," my seminar students said to me, "because you're not a real teacher." When I asked what they meant, they told me about the "real" classes of certain, named male teachers. "...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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The week in higher education
• Sharp-eyed readers who wondered why, in our 17 May issue, we reported that only one of two academics at Queen Mary, University of London who wrote a critical letter to The Lancet had apparently...
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Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature
To fully appreciate great works of art one must be tuned into history, discovers Mark Berry
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Means, ends and endings
Alan Ryan on commencement season in the US: this time, it’s political
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31 May 2012
Rat race to the bottom - Unhealthy competition gnaws away at university values
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THE 100 Under 50 university rankings: results
New league table aims to identify the rising stars of the global academy. John Morgan reports
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Leader: The best that money can't buy
The market has its limits. Whether it is good or bad depends on context, and all must be alert to ideological creep in the academy
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Odds and quads
These images are taken from the Bowen Collection, now held by the University of Bath, which was assembled as part of the research for a book on the origins and history of judo in the UK.
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, by Robert Macfarlane
Peregrination gives way to contemplation in a beautifully wrought travelogue, finds Timothy Mowl
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Milburn criticises employers over elite recruitment
Barriers to entering many professions are being reinforced by employers who recruit from a small cohort of socially exclusive universities, according to the government’s independent reviewer of...
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Campus Review: Australian science healthy but vulnerable, says chief scientist
Agricultural sciences, physics, mathematics and chemistry have been identified as “vulnerable” by Australia’s chief scientist.