English university funding ‘up in the air’ as review looms
Observers say key issue is whether review’s remit is wide-ranging, or set to predetermined objectives
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Lotfi Zadeh, 1921-2017
Father of ‘fuzzy logic’ remembered
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How will interdisciplinarity be assessed in the REF?
The research excellence framework’s panels will look at factors including adventurousness, disciplinary diversity and methodological clarity, predicts Martin Willis
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Interview with Suzie Imber
The Leicester space physicist on winning Astronauts, exploring uncharted mountains, and scientists’ social skills
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Publishers have been driven to desperation
In the news story “Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate”, James Milne, a spokesman for a group of five academic publishers that includes Elsevier, Wiley and Brill, says...
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First principles
I was interested to observe how little Pragya Agarwal’s “Careers intelligence” article “How to write the perfect PhD proposal” (News, 5 October) corresponded to the way in which PhD candidates are...
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Mail call
Many US homes have a mailbox at the edge of the property that residents visit to find out what has arrived since they last looked. That is a much better procedure than having post pushed through your...
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Don’t just scoff
In the news story “Survey results confirm UK university staff’s deep dissatisfaction” (5 October), your correspondent writes: “The final results…have made it clear that malcontents were not...
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The Nobels need to overcome their three-body problem
Newer prizes that reward scientific teams are fairer and more representative, says Martin Rees
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The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848, by Jonathan Israel
Book of the week: Elizabeth Cobbs praises a history that argues persuasively against US exceptionalism
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Are graduates good value for money?
With degrees now necessary for entry into more jobs than ever before, John Morgan considers the economic arguments for expanding higher education
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What are you reading? – 12 October 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Is ‘peak degree’ a myth?
Despite fears of saturation, an ever-growing army of graduates could just counter – rather than heighten – the threat of machines taking all our jobs