Accreditation of US universities should depend less on “input” measures, such as the number of lecturers with PhDs, and more on measures of outputs such as student loan default rates.
The economy is boosted by £227,000 for every student the state puts through A levels and a degree, a report has found.
At least 30 per cent of the membership of a reformed House of Lords should be independently appointed if scientific expertise is not to be lost, a lobby group has claimed.
Our failure to acknowledge that science is spurred by the same creative impulse that fuels the arts does a disservice to future scientists and to society as a whole, argues Geraint Wiggins
No we can't? Four decades of US dominance in the Gulf may be drawing to a close, says Philip Robins
Scott Sandage meets the political offspring who make a mark for all the wrong reasons
Why should the general reader take an interest in the Dutch medical teacher Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)? The most important reason is that in his day, the medical faculty at the University of Leiden...
Has the study of "kinship", always something of an esoteric specialism for the general reader, really faded from mainstream anthropology itself? A concept of the kinship-based society began with...
Increasing globalisation may not bring peace, but Howard Davies glimpses a digital way ahead
Marc Trachtenberg, of the University of California, Los Angeles, is unusual among US international relations specialists in being deeply committed to historical approaches and methods, and in...
Organs for transplantation come from other human beings, who may be alive or dead at the time of donation. Each option entails emotive and ethical issues, compounded by the fact that the number of...
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: Nabeel Affara• Institution: University of Cambridge• Value: £244,745Control of offspring sex ratio by spermatid genes that evade...
Preparing to retire after 16 years as a v-c, John Craven is dreaming of a new philosophy - and being a student again
An emetic email leads Simeon Underwood to discuss how universities are struggling to cope with the permanent immigration revolution
A.W. Purdue, who is no fan of sport, despairs at the thought of a summer given over to Games madness