Compound the error
In response to the shortage of helium for his research, Ray Dolan, a professor at University College London's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, suggests that in the long run it might be...
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Rich vision, pretty pattern (1 of 2)
The anonymous writer of "Poverty of vision pays well" (Letters, 19 January) underestimates the depth of each vice-chancellor's vision, which today far exceeds a mere preoccupation with league tables....
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Rich vision, pretty pattern (2 of 2)
Four profiles of vice-chancellors' policy advisers ("Who let them in?", 19 January): all young[ish] and female. Hardly a scientific sample, I admit, but the typical UK vice-chancellor: old[er] and...
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Accurate role models as hard to find as the Holy Grail itself
One professor has had enough of Hollywood's clichéd depictions of faculty, says Jon Marcus
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Appointments
University of PortsmouthAndy ThorpeAn economist whose previous research has focused on such indelicate topics as methane emissions from animals has been appointed associate dean for research at the...
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Odds and quads
These images are taken from an ornately designed leather-bound scrapbook, now in the collection of the Humanities Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, that Jane Webb Loudon (1807-58) seems...
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Research Intelligence - Renaissance man's word to the wise
UCL's vice-provost urges research-intensives to enlighten as well as inform. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: Battle won, but maybe not the war
With the government poised to shelve its HE bill, opponents of pro-market plans have scored a victory, however partial or fleeting
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From where I sit - Lift off, in more ways than one
Financial reports in the media around the world take a remarkably similar approach, or so it seems from China. The slick graphics that daily illustrate the swings in fortune of the FTSE or Hang Seng...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of HullSlavery isn't historyA project will address one of the contemporary world's most pressing - yet often overlooked - human rights concerns. In 2007, many UK schools marked the 200th...
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Off Piste - Long walks to freedom
Jeremy Black extols the physical - and psychological - benefits of a country stroll
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The week in higher education
• The University and College Union may suspend its work-to-rule industrial action on pension cuts in pre-1992 universities after talks with employers. Sally Hunt, the UCU general secretary, wrote to...
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Still room for merit alone?
Alan Ryan fears for the deserving if US-style admissions make it to the UK
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26 January 2012
Alternative route - Higher education bill’s suspension may not affect coalition destination