Binary creep spotted in research funding plans
A plan by funding chiefs to link support for postgraduate research students to a university's research quality is another step towards recreating a "binary" higher education system, a pro vice-...
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Recruit more home staff to foreign hubs, report urges
Quality warning for overseas campuses that fail to export 'institutional culture', writes John Morgan
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Scottish governance rife with cronyism and beset by disputes, union claims
Scottish higher education is "in crisis", beset by staff disputes over "farcical" management structures that leave universities rife with "cronyism".
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'Let students see external reports'
Review aims to make examiner system less cosy and more transparent. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Sector fears Tier 2 cap may deter overseas scholars
Tight procedures facing overseas talent may discourage interest in UK. John Morgan reports
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News in Brief
Wakeham reviewRCUK's 5 per cent solutionUniversities and institutes with the least efficient research will be required to reduce their indirect costs by 5 per cent. The Research Councils UK report...
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Censor alert at Nottingham Trent
Undergraduate claims he was gagged by students' union over contentious article. John Gill writes
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Uncharitable thinking
Who wouldn't want to help Africans avoid malaria and find sustainable work? Western aid officials, says Nick Petford
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Wherefore art thou, Haldane? State plans for humanities research
Peter Mandler worries that government priorities are creeping into AHRC decision-making and constraining researchers
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Top institutions in immunology
Top institutions in immunologyData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 2000-31 December 2010 Institution Papers CitationsCitations per paper1Osaka...
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Arts review: In a Forest, Dark and Deep
Neil LaBute's brother-and-sister drama prompts Siân Adiseshiah to consider how siblings are presented on stage
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The Pick - The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonWhat is now the Victoria and Albert Museum played a crucial role in the development of the Aesthetic Movement by...
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Diary
LondonMaazel: Mahler Cycle 2011Whether inspired by nature, poetry or his own spiritual journeys, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) famously wanted each of his symphonies to conjure up a whole world. Over the...
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Everything depends on Poppleton!
In what our vice-chancellor has called "an extraordinary turn of events", it seems likely that the future of higher education funding in England could be determined by our university's decision on...
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Robert L. Frost, 1952-2011
Bob Frost, a professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, used the legacy of his great-grandfather, the poet Robert Frost, to promote open access to information.Professor...