Stewart Russell, 1955-2011
A leading pioneer in the emerging field of science, technology and innovation studies (STIS) has died.Stewart Russell was born on 6 August 1955 at Eastleigh in Hampshire and educated at Wimborne...
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Appointments
Teesside UniversityPaul CrawshawAn academic who analyses risk and uncertainty - from the earthquake in Japan to what we eat and drink - has been appointed director of Teesside University's Social...
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Odds and quads
The bronze lamp in the form of an improbable bird takes its origins from the drawings of grotesque beasts by the Dutch designer and silversmith Arent van Bolten, dating from around 1620.
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Research intelligence - Poacher who rather enjoys gamekeeping
Douglas Kell was a whizz at landing grants. Now he is the one handing them out. Paul Jump reports
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From where I sit - Strike action and inaction
Looking from outside, one might expect that Nigeria, a country of more than 150 million people and endowed with oil reserves, independent from the UK since 1960, would have an educational system that...
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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 of SouthamptonForeign body trainingMedical students will be able to complete a major part of their training in continental Europe as the result of a partnership between a UK university and...
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The week in higher education
• Sir Alex Ferguson has received an honorary University of Manchester doctorate to mark his 25 years as manager of Manchester United. Rod Coombs, deputy vice-chancellor, said on 13 October that...
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Tribal language
Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies
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20 October 2011
Meet your new research partner - Embrace the rise of the citizen scientist
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Citizens, to the lab and front bench
Scientists are harnessing the public's power, but they could go further: a partnership would yield academic and political results
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Serfs up, bring down quasi-feudal practices (1 of 2)
What an extraordinary, scarcely believable world we live in when a "senior academic" feels the need to remain anonymous when blowing the whistle on vice-chancellors' increasingly bizarre behaviour...
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Serfs up, bring down quasi-feudal practices (2 of 2)
I read "The madness of kings" on long-serving vice-chancellors becoming power crazed with great interest. Our v-c, Tim Wheeler, is one of the UK's longest-serving university leaders, but I do not...
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Powers and pretence
Even after all this time, one still wonders whether ministers realise the risks their so-called "higher education reforms" are taking with our international reputation for quality."For sale:...