The revenues look good, but are the customs sound?
A US Senate report damned the for-profit sector. John Morgan asks if it has lessons for the UK
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode GrantsValues are the amounts requested. Awarded amounts may differ.• Award winner: David Longbottom• Institution: Moredun...
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Leave the thinking to us
Fellow humans, pay attention: algorithms are reshaping research from the inside out and we have barely noticed, warns David Beer
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Institutions shy of recruitment goals, but delays may mask true demand
Some universities remain up to 600 students short of the number they need to recruit, amid suggestions that other institutions could be causing the shortfalls by "hanging on to" applicants who missed...
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Students' tales of the unexpected
What is a deadline to the legally dead, spooks and spymasters? Jack Grove on extraordinary excuses
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Publishers' surpluses should further scholarship, say academics
Only a fifth of humanities and social science academics regard it as acceptable for academic publishers to make a profit that is not reinvested in their disciplines.
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In the wider view, colleges sparkle and sputter
Further education colleges are doing better than expected in attracting students from areas with low rates of higher education participation, but they also have higher-than-predicted dropout rates...
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University of Glasgow tight-lipped over ethics inquiry
The University of Glasgow has declined to publish the findings of its investigation into suspected research misconduct by a former professor of immunopharmacology.
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We'll put best foot forward - and boot in if we have to
University Alliance's new leader talks funding policy and standing firm. John Morgan reports
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It's 'official': dissent sacrificed to conformity
British universities are drifting towards a "dangerous state of affairs" where they are governed by "official knowledge" and "official teaching".
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Head of Cardiff Met associate college and spouse received £1m dividend
The chief executive of the London School of Commerce (LSC), an associate college of Cardiff Metropolitan University, and his wife received a dividend of £1 million in 2010, company accounts show.
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News in brief
ScotlandSalmond recipe for supportA package of extra financial support for Scottish students has been unveiled by the Holyrood government. As part of the measures, students with a family income of...
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Rivals and collaborators
To work best, the market in outreach work needs a balance of competition and cooperation, says Graeme Atherton
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Soldiers in the fight for the open society need reinforcements
Academics worldwide face economic and political attacks that restrict their freedom to challenge convention, says Jo Glanville
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Home thoughts from abroad
Statistics compiled by Poppleton University's Centre for Inconsequential Findings That Are Likely To Get In The Newspapers show that 82 per cent of the UK's academics are currently taking statutory...