Appointments
University of LeedsTheo RaynorIt was the white coats of the pharmacists at his local Boots store in Skegness that inspired Theo Raynor to pursue a degree in the field. Now Professor Raynor, currently...
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Odds and quads
These images of monkeys, from around 1840, are magic lantern slides.
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Research intelligence - Worth the paper it's written on?
How important are doctoral students to research - and vice versa? Jon Cartwright reports
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Leader: Not such a superpower after all
It is folly to emulate a US higher education system that, according to OECD figures, is failing so many of its young citizens
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From where I sit - Time to stop 'spruiking' PhDs
OK. I shall be the one to raise the question that cries out to be asked of my country's university staff, administrators and government financiers. Why do we enrol so many PhDs? Why do we entice so...
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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 UlsterGolden opportunityNorthern Ireland has been selected as the location for a Confucius Institute. Designed to foster academic, cultural, economic and social ties between China and...
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The week in higher education
• When he learned last year that vice-chancellors were earning an average annual salary of £220,000, Aaron Porter seethed with righteous indignation, describing the sum as "obscene" and accusing...
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Find teeth, then sharpen
US public servants badly need union support, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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15 September 2011
21st-century docs - Cartoonist turns film-maker to create PhD The Movie
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Want prejudice? Drop the blog, try a tabloid (1 of 3)
Here is a little puzzle. Picture two groups. In one, place those blogs that you have read about academic, cultural or political matters that interest you. In the other, put the newspapers most often...
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Want prejudice? Drop the blog, try a tabloid (2 of 3)
I fear you have fallen victim to identity fraud. Surely the Tim Luckhurst who pontificates at such length about the decline in newspaper readership cannot be the same man who, I am certain, would...
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Want prejudice? Drop the blog, try a tabloid (3 of 3)
Does Tim Luckhurst take a pessimistic view of the future of print journalism in the world of blogging, tweeting and people's vastly expanded ability to comment online untrammelled by restrictions?...
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Lay Top Trumps on table
I may be the last person you would expect to rally to the defence of David Willetts, but if his recent comments on differential tariffs for A levels are interpreted in a certain way, they open a...