Film review: Black Swan
Duncan Wu enjoys the intensity and obsession in a portrayal of a ballerina losing touch with reality
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Research intelligence - Adapted for greatest impact
By mixing independence and collaboration, a new centre expects to find novel ways of coping with climate change. Neha Popat reports
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From where I sit - Keen learners, but tough crowds
All teachers have faced hard crowds; bored, tired, restless students who would clearly prefer to be just about anywhere else than in your classroom.One of my toughest sells was a late Friday...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Week in Higher Education
The festive period was not kind to the man with responsibility for England's universities. Having been stung by undercover reporters, Vince Cable, the business secretary, may have regretted his pre-...
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6 January 2011
Campus watchmen - How far should universities go in policing extremism?
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Hard times and narration arouse passion in US humanities scholars
The “academy in crisis” emerged as a key theme on the first day of the Modern Language Association of America conference, as thousands of humanities scholars gathered in California for the annual...
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Leader: Standing on shaky ground
This year looks to be one in which divisions in the sector widen, leaving no one representing the needs of the academy as a whole
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Lack of laughter is no joke
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the real punchline of his diplomatic incident
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Where research shares the driver's seat with industry
Lord Bhattacharyya's vision of the future fuels Warwick Manufacturing Group, reports Paul Jump
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For discontented Lib Dems, Tories offer the right home
Analysis shows that defectors find happiness with Conservatives, not Labour. Simon Baker reports
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Scholars chip in with a defence of freedom
Academics at the University of Cambridge have been praised for their staunch defence of academic freedom after research on bank-card security was criticised by an industry group.Melanie Johnson,...
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Headless maybe, but not mindless
A lecturer and his work have a starring role in a very novel thriller. Paul Jump gets the backstory
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News in brief
Freedom of InformationJisc plots a way through the jungleResearchers are being offered new advice on how to handle Freedom of Information requests for data. The Joint Information Systems Committee,...
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Campus round-up
Royal Holloway, University of LondonWarm spots in the big chillResearchers may have come a step closer to understanding how life on Earth survived between 600 and 700 million years ago when the...