Research council bucks trend on funding success
The EPSRC's steady rise in grant approval rates continues, but at what cost? Paul Jump reports
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California's best-seller dreams misguided, says new head of university press
In recent years, it has been common for university presses to move away from an almost exclusive focus on scholarly books in favour of general-interest titles.But now the new director of the...
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Swap camels for custom vehicles
Universities told to vaunt uniqueness instead of relying on identikit cliches. David Matthews writes
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Rethink the route to goal
Widening participation needs reconceptualising for a new age, say John Butcher, Rohini Corfield and John Rose-Adams
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More money, more choice and a virtuous circle of innovation
After the turbulence of the past year, business secretary Vince Cable sets out the government's vision for the future of higher education
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Pioneers need not apply
The research councils' use of peer 'preview' is fundamentally flawed and a pathway to mediocrity, argues Donald W. Braben
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Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
Steve Wheeler is convinced that we need new approaches for digitally remastered learners
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Everyone's a Winner: Life In Our Congratulatory Culture
Les Gofton takes the measure of 'status inflation' and the bathetic growth of universal heroism
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The Origin of Our Species
And God said, let there be culture. And there was culture. Then came technology, art, writing and, eventually, books. Some books featured more convincingly detailed stories about how it all started....
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Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians
Explanations for the durability - or not - of undemocratic regimes could scarcely be more timely, given the upheavals that cashiered strongmen in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, but not (so far) in Syria...
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Derrida had a word for it
An irritating cliche inspired David Bellos to examine the artful skills of the translator. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
LeedsThe Sadler GiftA century ago this year, Sir Michael Sadler (1861-1943) became vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. He played a crucial role in developing the cultural life of the city and...
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The Pick - Tartuffe
TartuffeRoger McGough after MolièreEnglish Touring Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, and then touring nationallyWhen the theatre director Gemma Bodinetz asked poet Roger McGough to create a new version...
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The root of our problems
Our Deputy Head of Sociology, Professor L.G. Angst, has reacted angrily to Hefce costings that show that subjects such as sociology will, under the new tuition-fees regime, help to subsidise more...
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TV review: Nature's Miracle Babies
Gary Day sees parallels between the 19th-century novel and anthropomorphic tales of rare animals