Daytime TV: Realm of the senses
The web is a force for good - or not, learns Gary Day. Are young people distracted or thinking differently?
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Top institutions in materials science
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-October 2009
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Plagiarism probe sees UK scholar quit Belgian post
A British academic has resigned from his post at a Belgian university after being accused of plagiarising the PhD thesis of a member of the Finnish Parliament.Martin Stone, a professor of philosophy...
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Tony, George and Adolf's fighting talk
Scholar addresses rhetoric's deadly role in turning 'jaw-jaw' into 'war-war'. Matthew Reisz reports
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Social scientists aim to save 'fragile flower' from retrenchment frost
Academics prepare to defend the discipline from the pruning scissors. Matthew Reisz reports
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Grant winners
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCILAbout EUR515 million (£465.5 million) has been awarded by the ERC to the winners of its second Advanced Grants competition. The awards, worth up to EUR3.5 million apiece, are...
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Blog Confidential: Onward, Christian bias
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online
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Appointments
University of NorthamptonNick PetfordNick Petford is to take over as vice-chancellor of the University of Northampton when Ann Tate retires after eight years in charge. Professor Petford, pro vice-...
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Tear a strip off sweatshops
Full-frontal nudity hit campuses in the UK, the US and Canada as students stripped to protest against sweatshop manufacturing. Mark Rogers, a PhD student at Durham University, was among those to...
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Anglia Ruskin University - Finders, keepers?
A law lecturer has published a paper examining whether "freegans" - people who help themselves to things other people have thrown away - are guilty of theft. The study, by Sean Thomas, senior...
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East Anglia/Royal Holloway - Twitter blurs media boundaries
Academics have analysed the use of Twitter during British National Party leader Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC One show Question Time. Nick Anstead, lecturer in politics at the University of...
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11 March 2010
#loveHE - Although even young kids know that higher education can change lives, universities are unloved. Join our effort to put them centre stage
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Implement peer review or resign, controversial journal’s editor told
Ultimatum spells end for Medical Hypotheses in its current form. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Academic to argue that conviction was unlawful
Man found guilty of harassing v-c to tell judge that prosecution breached his right to free expression. Melanie Newman reports
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What business wants: fewer graduates, higher fees, more input
Employers’ association sets out proposals in pre-election manifesto as Lammy defends higher education for its own sake. Hannah Fearn reports