Appointments
London School of EconomicsPaul De GrauweAn economist and former member of the Belgian Parliament has been named the first holder of the John Paulson chair in European political economy at the London...
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Odds and quads
Charles Darwin spent only 18 months of HMS Beagle's five-year voyage at sea.
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Research intelligence - Fanfare for the common front
Transparency and support for all UK science are the aims of the STFC's new chief. Paul Jump reports
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LSE's 'mistakes were legion' in Libyan dealings, Woolf finds
‘Damning’ report criticises governance, but Saif Gaddafi likely to keep PhD. David Matthews writes
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From where I sit - State the case for the public good
It has grown fashionable recently to pronounce that the distinction between public and private colleges and universities is now anachronistic.In Australia, as well as in the UK, we understand all too...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University for the Creative Arts/KentSlime mould gets movingTwo universities have joined forces in an attempt to explain complicated biological processes with computer-generated animation. The joint...
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The week in higher education
• An attempt to reignite the "Climategate" row with the leak of a second batch of emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia fell flat. Whereas the release of the...
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Thou shalt not sit on fences
Academia must follow the Church’s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies
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1 December 2011
Holding out for some heroes - An embattled academy needs a new breed of chancellor
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: More than just a robe and cap
A chancellor may seem archaic, but the role can be updated and reinterpreted to perform a truly valuable service for universities
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'Consumer' right? No, it's the wrong analogy
After two decades of exposure to the managerial mantra "the student is a consumer", I was intrigued to see the Times Higher Education headline "A bad deal for 'consumers'" (17 November), particularly...
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Consensual impact
In "Dutch lessons for an impact agenda that satisfies all parties" (17 November), Paul Benneworth contrasts the Netherlands' approach to impact with the UK's. The title attracted my attention, not...
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False move
University College London plans to move "postgraduate teaching and research and accommodation for students and staff...to a new campus next to the Olympic Park...[This] could be used to house...