US watchdogs, show more teeth or face fed pound
Obama’s State of the Union address draws line in sand, QAA conference hears

Obama’s State of the Union address draws line in sand, QAA conference hears

UK women made up 40 per cent of A-level maths students in 2011 but just 6 per cent of professors in the subject, data collated for the London Mathematical Society show

No hope to Nobel - how persistence can pay off for struggling hatchlings

Lisa Downing explains to Matthew Reisz how society’s unspoken prejudices are given voice in the discourse surrounding killers

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations

Kevin Fox Gotham on the negative consequences of privatised disaster services and aid work

Sue Norton on the difficult days ahead for Ireland’s academy as bureaucracy and consumerisation seem set to increase

Catherine Clinton on a creative and contextual analysis of the visual art of enslaved blacks

Ivor Gaber on what motivates Rupert Murdoch


Scholars tired of ‘constant’ data requests. Frances Mechan Schmidt writes

Master of Trinity says technology transfer offices can be more hindrance than help

Ministers advised to reverse ban on second degree funding

Further shrinkage as funding reforms take fuller effect