Odds and quads
This 18-carat gold cigarette case belonged to Harry Price (1881-1948), a writer, amateur conjuror and ghost hunter who, in 1923, set up the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, in order "to...
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Research intelligence - When predicting winners, it pays to follow the papers trail
Nobel prize forecasts for 2011 utilise highly referenced 'citation laureates'. Paul Jump reports
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Stapel diet of fraud
Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ‘betrayers of the truth’
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From where I sit - Not all the leaves are brown
AB 131, the second half of the proposed legislation popularly known as the California Dream Act, is currently awaiting final ratification. If approved, it will give undocumented Californian residents...
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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 East AngliaLiquid hunches are not enoughDehydration is a severe problem for the elderly, causing confusion and falls and making hospital admission more likely, yet it is not always easy...
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The week in higher education
• Irish travellers, left-wing activists, European "anarchists" and human rights lawyers: the story about an illegal traveller encampment at Dale Farm in Essex has proved manna from heaven for the...
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States of emergency
Alan Ryan on the post-9/11 decade and one increasingly divisible nation
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22 September 2011
High anxiety - Tense about the new term? You’re not alone
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Good luck, you'll really need it
The back-to-campus jitters will be more pronounced than ever because, in this year of tumult, no one knows what lies ahead
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Sage fright
Excitement, anxiety, shaking in your boots. Academics experience mixed feelings as term starts, says Jon Marcus
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Out of the shadows
W.G. Sebald, stifled by the culture of silence in post-war Germany, by ‘people’s ability to forget what they do not want to know’, settled in 1960s England and wrote groundbreaking literary works to...
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Data be damned: REF's blueprint for systemic intellectual corruption
The abandonment of metrics will leave the assessment exercise exposed to sheer subjectivity and bias, warns Andrew Oswald
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Tier 4 tinkering may end in British tears
Your article on the University of Greenwich's concerns about the 20 per cent drop in the number of international students applying for its places in 2011-12 filled us with trepidation ("Visa reform...