A right royal rumpus
A visit by the Queen to Stirling four decades ago this week resulted in a fiasco that humiliated an administration, Richard Evans recalls
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Bracing for impact may cost sector millions
Universities 'falling over themselves' to hire staff to handle REF case studies. Paul Jump reports
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LSE's not-so-quiet American keen to speak truth to power from public stage
The new director of the London School of Economics has scotched persistent rumours about the institution's privatisation, affirming that it will remain in the state system.
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Dissatisfaction is guaranteed
Euro survey shows UK to be home of scholarly discontent and regret. Matthew Reisz reports
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Wake up to the new world, declares Willetts
Laggards, not AAB policy, caused hiccups, suggests minister. John Morgan reports from Birmingham
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No talk of U-turns, please: call for cross-party unity on immigration shift
A Tory MP and a Labour colleague from a parliamentary committee have called for cross-party consensus on withdrawing overseas students from net migration figures so the government can make the policy...
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USS bonanza fails to reward its pensioners
Bonuses paid to investment staff working within the sector's main pension scheme almost doubled as it closed its final salary scheme to new members.
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Oxbridge deaf to the Hear's siren call
Institutions say they will not be adopting student report card scheme. David Matthews reports
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Union digs in heels over proposed redundancies for archaeologists
Strike action considered after Birmingham plans to make department history. Paul Jump writes
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Enter the dragon - or face losing fee support
Plaid Cymru's shadow education minister has called for tuition fee support to be withdrawn from Welsh students who study in other parts of the UK.
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Unheimlich manoeuvres in the race to make CGI real
Why are almost-lifelike animated characters creepy? Chris Parr talks to a researcher exploring the 'uncanny valley'
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News in brief
Postgraduate teacher trainingLabour's top-down reward schemeA Labour government would pay off part of high-flying students' tuition fees in exchange for a commitment to work as teachers in deprived...
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Rights and proper debate
Geraldine Van Bueren urges the British Academy to extend the discussion about the pros and cons of a UK Bill of Rights
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This old house
A controversial article by a Poppleton academic in the latest edition of The British Journal of Experimental Symbolism (Vol 22: 33-74) suggests a strong symbolic connection between the present...
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Hugh Bentall, 1920-2012
The UK's first professor of cardiac surgery has died. Hugh Henry Bentall was born in Worthing, Sussex on 28 April 1920 and graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1942. He started his...