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Sector-endorsed routes aid publishers, not scholars, say journal editors Harvey Goldstein and John Bynner

Sector-endorsed routes aid publishers, not scholars, say journal editors Harvey Goldstein and John Bynner

Recreational deprivation has been linked to criminality, obesity and declining creativity. Rob Parr asks why having fun is not taken more seriously

Worth the risks - Animal researchers end their silence on their work

Scottish independenceHepi/THE essay competitionWriters with strong opinions on what Scottish independence might mean for higher education are invited to enter the Higher Education Policy Institute/...

United StatesIndian applicants up by one-thirdApplications to US graduate schools from India have risen dramatically in the past year, according to a new report. The Council of Graduate Schools, in...

A leading Argentine political theorist and advocate of “radical democracy”, long based at the University of Essex, has died

We speak to the former Children’s Laureate and next chancellor of the University of Roehampton

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
If you’re unsure where your head isfor jetting aroundIf you’re wasteful with millionsbut skimp over poundsIf discussion embarrasses you(it reveals your mistakes!)Urge pay restraint widelywhile you’re...
Hurrah for Rowan Williams (“No fooling about impact”, Opinion, 17 April). The one unifying factor of every degree should be critical analysis, training to think, bringing enlightenment to the masses...
With hindsight, perhaps the legacy of the research excellence framework on all researchers has been distilled in the tribunal judgement “responsibility for allowing their own vanity and self-interest...

In what she describes as “a major breakthrough”, our Head of Neuroscience, Dr E. G. Loeb, has discovered empirical proof of the recent contention by Professor Thomas Harrison in Times Higher...

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch grantsAward winner: Colin TaylorInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £450,901Functional properties of a mobile organelle...

Gary Day on a new biography that breathes some life into the war poet

University of Law also has a new Guernsey-based parent firm