Count the spin outs that win out, says chief science adviser
Ensuring that knowledge translates into growth will be among the priorities the incoming government chief scientific adviser Mark Walport has set himself for the next five years.
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THE podcast: Anthony Forster
Anthony Forster, University of Essex vice-chancellorPodcast Powered By PodbeanUniversity of Essex vice-chancellor Anthony Forster joins reporter Chris Parr to discuss the university’s future, his own...
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Prospero’s Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer
The fictions and pretences of theatrical performance form the lens for this fascinating and highly personal memoir of fraught and dysfunctional family relationships. Characteristically for a work...
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet and How We Live by Marlene Zuk
As someone who suffers recurrent palaeofantasies (don’t ask), I’m a sucker for this book’s title. The idea of exploring the strange things that 21st-century Homo sapiens gets up to in the name of...
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America’s Assembly Line by David E. Nye
Claimed to have been invented a century ago, the assembly line has long since lost the lustre it once enjoyed. Henry Ford is commonly credited with this remarkable achievement in 1913, but fellow...
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Fault lines of enquiry
Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens
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LSE students hit back over North Korea trip
Students at the London School of Economics who were on a controversial visit to North Korea with undercover BBC journalists have hit out at the university, saying it has placed them in greater danger...
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Poorest pupils ‘could be nudged to apply to university’
School pupils from poorer backgrounds could be contacted by the government to nudge them towards applying to university if they get good GCSE grades, David Willetts has said.
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THE podcast: 18 April 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanThe BBC’s North Korea Panorama documentary, the financial threats facing universities, and fears that a two-tier PhD system is developing all feature on this Times Higher...
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Bumps on Dubai’s university highway
Western universities are refining their offerings as the city-state’s economy gets back on track. Jack Grove reports from the UAE
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Grant winners - 18 April 2013
Economic and Social Research CouncilDFID-ESRC Growth Research ProgrammeAward winner: Christopher WoodruffInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £361,028Training, productivity and upgrading:...
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Appointments - 18 April 2013
University of CambridgeDavid MacKayDavid MacKay, who has recently been appointed the Regius professor in engineering at the University of Cambridge, said that despite a brief phase when he had other...
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Bob Godfrey, 1921-2013
Academics have paid tribute to “the godfather of British animation” for playing a pivotal role in putting the subject on university syllabuses
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Applying changes
A rising proportion of university applicants will have vocational qualifications. The sector must respond, says Mary Curnock Cook
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It's another world
Kevin Fong boldly takes science to pupils in post-Thatcher, post-Spock galaxies