Growing up in Cold War West Germany, teenagers would share knowing grins whenever the name Beate Uhse was mentioned: it stood for all things vaguely adult and naughty. Little did we know about the...
Kathy Rudy has written Loving Animals with the intent of establishing fresh perspectives on animal ethics. In pursuit of this goal, she investigates common dilemmas concerning the treatment of non-...
Matthew Reisz on a UK-supported research centre helping tackle violence against women in Kurdistan
The switch from measuring widening participation via students' socio-economic classification to free school meal data is not fair, an admissions expert has said.
A university aims to attract research investment with 'collaborative centre'. John Morgan writes
MalaysiaWatchdog bites private sectorThe Malaysian government has fined a record number of private universities and vowed to tighten up oversight of the sector following concerns over academic...
Begun as a counterweight to journal impact tables, Faculty of 1000 starts its own. Paul Jump writes
Open-access publishingCORE melds UK repositoriesA search engine that allows researchers to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories has been developed by The Open...
Conservatives are keen to follow Swedish, Danish lead in charging non-EU students. Jack Grove writes
Supporting reconstruction in Iraq drove home the value of teaching, an HEA Fellow tells Jack Grove
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Services Research (NIHR HSR) programme• Award winner: Paul Roderick• Institution: University of Southampton• Value: £360,490A national study of practice...
University rankings are inapplicable to the developing world and risk doing damage there, argues Adam Habib
Journal owners want academics to work with them towards the shared goal of furthering and disseminating research, says Graham Taylor
The longer one wears the crown, the more tyrannical he becomes - a senior academic offers a theory of vice-chancellors' behaviour
An iPad or Kindle does not magically improve education, says Cathy Davidson