Paul Stiff, 1949-2011
A leading typographer and design historian who dropped out of university as an undergraduate has died.Born in Middlesbrough on 1 August 1949, Paul Stiff abandoned his degree course in sociology at...
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TV review: Bible's Buried Secrets
The Bible holds many mysteries, and Gary Day is intrigued by the suggestion that God had a wife
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Film review: Stone
Duncan Wu enjoys some sensitive performances in a Midwest drama about a prison warden's moral crisis
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Industry welcomes magical transformation of Disney interns
Students say the Disney College Program teaches skills they can't learn in class. Jon Marcus reports
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Odds and quads
This striking object, held by the observatory at Uppsala University, could be a fragment of the world's first mechanical calculator.
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Research intelligence - Variations on eight themes
The architect of the research plan at Leicester's College of Medicine explains its successes to Paul Jump
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From where I sit - Doctorates for everyone
Question: When is a doctorate not a doctorate? Answer: When it's a master's degree.So here's the thing: government education ministers in Australia are seriously considering a proposal to award...
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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
Staffordshire UniversityMaths cash bonus adds upA university is introducing a teacher training course in secondary mathematics with a £9,000 bursary, reflecting the national shortage of teachers in...
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The week in higher education
Coverage of the University and College Union's strike action struggled to judge the numbers involved, or its impact. The Daily Mirror said on 24 March that institutions "will be crippled...as tens of...
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Citation averages, 2000-2010, by fields and years
Citation Averages, 2000-2010, by fields and yearsSource: Thomson Reuters' Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 2000-31 December 2010Years...
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Ignorance wins the day
Felipe Fernández-Armesto fears for the future of a leading comprehensive
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31 March 2011
Old faces, fresh scrutiny - Graduate gatekeepers needed to watch over the academy
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Rethink funding 'mess' to achieve democratic and wide participation
Offa’s access agreements will not work, argues Thomas Docherty, although two principles should be kept in any alternative system
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Leader: Guardians of their own future
Malcolm Gillies' report on university governance, the fruit of bitter personal experience, offers a way forward for the sector