Universities could be in private hands 'in six months'
Mooted change in legal status may allow investors to obtain degree-awarding powers. John Morgan writes
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Researcher faces misconduct probe
Suspended academic launches own investigation and decries 'smear campaign'. Paul Jump reports
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Discontinue impact line or good science will count cost
Lord Sainsbury tells Simon Baker that the coalition is failing to learn from Labour's policy mistakes
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Pension action plans threaten NUS-UCU alliance
The National Union of Students has warned lecturers that student support for industrial action over pensions could be withdrawn.
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Monographs finally join citations database
The use of bibliometric data to assess humanities scholars could become more widespread with the launch of a citation index of academic books.
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Stock plagiarism penalties don't always fit the crime
Scholars identify weaknesses in a proposed sector-wide 'reference tariff'. Jack Grove reports
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Save the world - but nick a bit of it for yourself
If you have ever felt the urge to mug an old lady after buying a package of eco-friendly soap powder, you may not be alone.According to social science publisher Sage's most downloaded article of 2009...
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Wales says it is the victim of a conspiracy
BBC and v-cs have run a 'coordinated series of attacks', university claims. David Matthews writes
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It's better to travel - but Erasmus credits can get lost in translation
'Lack of trust' and course mismatches mean study abroad may go unrecognised. Jack Grove reports
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Claude: The Enchanted Landscape
Sheila McTighe on a fresh look at Claude's working process, at his embodiment of place and at his idealisation of the pastoral
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Diary
LondonHoneypotIt is 1982. Susanne is a beautiful Swedish woman in her mid-thirties. So what impels her to leave behind her husband and child, embark on a wild journey of self-discovery and volunteer...
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The Pick - Film
Film Tate Modern (until 11 March 2012)Digital cinema has enormous potential, argues Tacita Dean in the book that accompanies her new installation, but today it is still too "blandly euphoric at all...
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Thought control: new evidence
Alarming allegations of "impact rigging" have been prompted by the revelation that Gordon Lapping's recent address to the Poppleton branch of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos on "Epistemic...
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Accentuate negatives to identify 'sinners'
One is struck by the methodology of league tables, both national and international, being based entirely on positives ("US muscle reigns, but there's a world of difference in value", 6 October). What...
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Control is just an illusion
Fred Inglis is bloody angry about the state of truth in the academy ("Economical with the actualité", 6 October). Good for him, it's about time somebody was.However, he is wrong when he depicts the...