Arguments of merit
Peter Humphreys may well be right that we need "a pay structure that rewards merit", but PRP is not the answer. I have been on PRP for the past four years. Each year I get a small rise roughly in...
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Have grant, will travel
Australian government proposals for portable research scholarships have the academic community up in arms. Geoff Maslen reports. Acontroversial shake-up of Australia's research funding system will...
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Hip, hip, hooray
Two new techniques will improve the lives of those with hip replacements. Geoff Watts reports. Materials scientist John Metcalf uses an apt comparison to illustrate one of his projects. "You can...
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Northwest rises to the challenge
A group of universities is leading the drive to be at the centre of wealth creation. Kam Patel reports. The government's push to make universities more entrepreneurial should be allied to a...
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Disputed grounds for knowledge
Is Science Multicultural? - Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate
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The art of being a show-off
Rembrandt to Himself - Rembrandt as an Etcher
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Look who's talking now
Apes, Language and the Human Mind
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On your Marx for a philosophical race through human nature
Ten Theories of Human Nature
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that is set in the Big Apple by an author who was born in the Big Easy: "I am always drawn back...
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Leafing through pictures of Persia
Persian Paintings in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Modern minds, primitive arts
The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the week's TV and radio highlights (times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Over three compelling hours, Gulag (Saturday 9.00 BBC2) presents remarkable evidence from the Soviet...
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Trowels and tribulations
What drove a biologist to fabricate the botanical history of a Hebridean island, and why did academia keep silent about his fraud for 50 years? Anne Sebba uncovers a Rum affair. In 1948 one of the...
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Capital investment
Is an art degree from London weightier than one from the provinces? Kate Worsley reports. It is ten years since the Damien Hirst-led Goldsmiths posse launched the Brit art boom, focusing...
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Old faces, new lives
Why do we think old age is a burdensome, debilitated state? Raymond Tallis says it is because we cannot conceive of life beyond children and careers. Last week came the news that an estimated 100,000...