David Nutt on pharma brain drain
Without a shot in the arm for commercial drug development, our science base will suffer, argues David Nutt
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Grant winners
The Wellcome TrustInvestigators in Medical HumanitiesThese awards range from about £500,000 to just over £1 million for up to five yearsAward winner: Steven SturdyInstitution: University of...
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Leader - V-cs, please give generously
When pension pots are full, generosity would fit the zeitgeist better than salary top-ups
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The week in higher education
Anyone familiar with the views of Edzard Ernst may be surprised to learn that he was on the board of the journal Homeopathy. But this cognitive dissonance was ended last week when the journal sacked...
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Professorial pay rises: is the REF factor at play?
REF factor may explain growing salary differential shown by Hesa data. Jack Grove reports
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Situation vacant
There are concerns that leading England’s funding council is a diminished job after suggestions that Sir Alan Langlands may be leaving the role because of its shrinking importance under the new fees...
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Odds and quads
These are just two of the plant samples, now held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, that Carl Peter Thunberg brought back from his pioneering expedition to Japan in 1775.
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Campus round-up
Shrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of East Anglia, the grassland...
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Sex and Arab sensibility
Shahidha Bari considers an exploration of desire and denial amid Egypt’s shifting sands
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Debased intellectual currency
Joanna Williams commends a rigorous analysis of the impact of funding changes on the sector
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American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
In May 1918, in Brooks County, Georgia, Hayes Turner, a black farm labourer, was lynched by a white mob seeking vengeance for the death of Hampton Smith, a white farmer and racist. The fact that...
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Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering by Clive Hamilton
Most activists and commentators feel glumly pessimistic because of the lack of progress in climate change negotiations. In the meantime, global carbon emissions continue and even rise, atmospheric...
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Think of the children
Deborah Bowman praises a compassionate and informed look at paediatric ethics
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Speaking of Race and Class: The Student Experience at an Elite College by Elizabeth Aries, with Richard Berman
The US higher education system is massive but pyramidal. Almost anyone can go to college, but only a few can attend the nation’s best institutions. And just like in other countries with highly...
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Image Warfare in the War on Terror by Nathan Roger
This new century has seen an explosion in communication technologies among consumers worldwide. But according to Nathan Roger, the true import of this revolution has yet to be fully understood by...