Student’s suspension is a matter for Cambridge, Willetts says
David Willetts has declined to offer any support to a University of Cambridge student who was suspended for two and a half years for heckling him.
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Insecure in the knowledge
As old-style lifelong tenure fades out in the US, institutions are having to invent new systems by which they can define and judge scholarship, David Mould discovers
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Creative vs accounting
Allowing universities to be run by bean counters and bureaucrats is detrimental to academics' ingenuity and productivity, argues Amanda Goodall
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The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Mercedes Camino commends the untangling of atrocities committed during the Franco era
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17 Equations that Changed the World
Charles Seife is eased through mathematical relationships that help to make sense of reality
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The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power
In this dense, if repetitious, study of the modernisation of France, Richard Kuisel tells of a second French resistance. Not to German occupation, but to a foe pervading all of French life, namely...
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Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden
It is a disturbing truth, as Jonathan Clark has pointed out in Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1986), that academics promoting a...
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Memory block: how to keep awkward bits of history alive
Save all, read all? Matthew Reisz on the archivists devising protocols for preserving born-digital data
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'Education allows our people to make a living anywhere'
Palestinian universities are determined to expand despite limited resources. Matthew Reisz writes
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILFollow on Fund• Award winner: Kate Pickett• Institution: University of York• Value: £99,925Discussing inequality: materials for the classroom and beyond• Award...
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Academic salaries no longer attract top talent, survey finds
Scholars' remuneration packages fail to match pay in many other professions. Jack Grove reports
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Publishers cry foul over RCUK access plans
Tensions between publishers and funding bodies over open access to research papers have flared up again after the Publishers Association accused Research Councils UK of riding roughshod over...
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Teesside licence suspended as UKBA cracks whip
An English university has become the first UK higher education institution known to have had its licence for sponsoring international students suspended since rules were toughened.
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Group wants AHRC to clarify 'broken' position on funding
Subject heads to quiz Rylance over signs support for postgraduates will fall 27%. Paul Jump writes
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Pakistan has the antidote to brain drain: cash
Developing countries wanting to improve their universities should emulate the success of Pakistan in retaining top academics by paying them hefty salaries, according to the country's former science...