Research intelligence - One hundred years of gratitude for the MRC
A century on, MRC has captured the public’s heart and the state’s wallet. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Grant winners
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Karen PolizziInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £108,160How does yeast Golgi organisation contribute to protein glycosylation?...
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THE Scholarly Web - Consumers v producers
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Awards and promotions
Aston UniversitySimon GreenThe new executive dean of Aston University’s School of Languages and Social Sciences, Simon Green, said that it was a “huge privilege” to take on the role, while noting the...
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Obituary - Sir Patrick Nairne
A distinguished civil servant who went on to become the second master of St Catherine’s College, Oxford and the second chancellor of the University of Essex has died.Patrick Nairne was born into a...
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Leader - Fair-weather friends of fair access
Failure to evaluate the impact of widening participation funding - and to fight for its retention - has left it vulnerable to the axe
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Martin McQuillan warns that earnings data by place and course could become the destroyer of academic worlds
Martin McQuillan on graduate earnings by subject and institution: the Manhattan Project for the English sector?
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Aston is setting the standard for gender equality in the sector, argues Dame Julia King
Dame Julia King’s institution is tackling gender inequality - it is high time that the rest of the sector followed suit, she argues
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Open access will mean journals closing because there’s no such thing as a free lunch, argues Richard Hoyle
Open-access advocates are utopian thinkers whose ideas work only if you ignore the costs of journal publishing, argues Richard Hoyle
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Alan Ryan - How thoughtless
US politics is not keen on the theoretical, Alan Ryan discovers
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Letters
Zero Marx for Gove’s time warp (again)Michael Gove is stuck in a time warp (“Enemy of promise”, 13 June). Twenty-five years ago, the radical Right was publishing similar scare stories about Marxists...
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False dawn?
Student protests in Quebec brought down a government but failed to freeze tuition fees: what’s next for a province where universities remain high on the political agenda? Elizabeth Gibney reports...
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Fallen women’s studies
The erosion of women’s, gender and sexuality studies in UK universities will prove detrimental to the academy and wider society, argues Lisa Downing
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Hammer horror
After one epic throw Chris Hackley was a Titan among boys, but unlike the object he propelled his sporting career never took flight
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Remembrance of the last of us
Aaron Rosen is entranced by the V&A’s daring exhibition, where words and art fuse to bring a dystopian vision to life