Carry on loving, the Roman way
Ancient mores met modern times at a conference exploring 'Romosexuality'. Matthew Reisz writes
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Innovation boss in duplication row
Paper sprouts fresh charges against Thai official found to have plagiarised PhD. Paul Jump writes
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News in brief
Biomedical researchCatalyst set to bring ideas to lifeA £180 million scheme aimed at translating biomedical research into healthcare breakthroughs will open for applications at the end of this month...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND THE NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHAnglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanitiesJoint applications for up to €40,000 (£33,000) each have...
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Master the new loom before life's tapestry unravels at our hands
We must ethically control synthetic biology or its box of delights could easily become a Pandora-style nightmare, warns Julian Savulescu
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Past is prologue
Critics, take note: the archives teach us that the academy's 'golden age' had plenty of commonalities with today, Nick Hillman says
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Goodbye to dropouts
"This is a real breakthrough!"That was the relatively ecstatic response of Nancy Harbinger, our Deputy Head of Student Experience, to the news that the Big Four audit firm Deloitte has developed a...
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London Met links with stag-do firm
Master's course offers expert oversight from 'spa with strippers' tour operator. Jack Grove reports
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Richard Descoings, 1958-2012
Richard Descoings, who was the director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, has been described by colleagues as "a tremendously charismatic figure" and has been praised by Nicolas Sarkozy,...
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (2 of 2)
Nicola Dandridge is correct in only one respect in her assessment of the coverage of Dutch universities in the British media. British students are not yet flocking to the Netherlands, nor are they...
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Drink least of our worries
Muslim students at London Metropolitan University and elsewhere must be groaning in despair at Malcolm Gillies' recent ill-advised comments about alcohol and Islam ("Raising the bars a 'moral' matter...
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No laughing matter
Philip Diamond is wrong to think that Michael Duff's cultural impact should allay his concerns about the impact agenda ("Winning formula", Letters, 12 April). Pathways to Impact requires researchers...
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Multiple feedback
Regarding your news story "QAA's new riff on student feedback: positive notes or waves of jargon?" (12 April): although criticisms are understandable, it is good to see that the Quality Assurance...
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Breaking totem's taboos
In his review of The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis (29 March), John Forrester berates the fact that we did not write a cultural history of psychoanalysis and its...
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Grit and pearls of wisdom
Your focus on the value of failure is to be welcomed ("Get back in the saddle", 29 March). It may well be salutary to stress that all need not always have prizes. It is surely also true that...