Vital signs of an unhealthy future for UK science
Short-term contracts and a lack of permanent openings risk causing long-term damage to UK academic science, a report prepared for David Willetts warns.
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Sarkozy's reforms herald French 'Ivy League'
New 'Sorbonne League' at heart of effort to create world-class elite. Jack Grove reports from Paris
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EPSRC fails to placate critics of its effort to 'shape' research capability
Funding council chief's no-show to defend policy 'beggared belief'. Paul Jump reports
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Many tales, but no idea which will have impact
Universities' efforts to collect impact case studies for the 2014 research excellence framework may be in full flow, but uncertainty and confusion still abound.
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In the virtual newsroom, scholars tell the rest of the story
Simon Baker gets the scoop on a website offering expert insight on breaking news direct to the public
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Metric perversion
The use of journal rankings and citations data throughout the REF would hamstring innovation, argues Hugh Willmott
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Voice of experience: we cannot afford to waste our untapped potential
We must protect widening-participation funding for the sake of the disadvantaged, disenfranchised and disillusioned, says Martin Bean
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Diary
LondonSigismund's Watch: A Tiny CatastropheAlthough Barbara Loftus' mother Hildegard fled to England from Nazi Germany in 1939, it was not until 1995 that she began to talk about her experiences and...
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The Pick - Notes and Letters
Notes and LettersLondonHow and what does music manage to communicate - and how far can the process be described in words? Does contemporary physics confirm ancient ideas about "the music of the...
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Our logo: shock announcement
In a "shock announcement", our Deputy Director of Logo Development, Roger Placement, has confirmed that Poppleton will abandon its current logo.At a hastily convened press conference in the atrium of...
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No creative spark in big bang funding
I doubt that I am the only reader who noted a particularly cruel juxtaposition in the 29 September issue of Times Higher Education. On the one hand was John Martin's well-argued critique of the lack...
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Doubt thou the star? (1 of 2)
The argument that William Shakespeare was not the prime author of the plays attributed to him has absolutely no basis in historical fact. No documents from the period provide any evidence of an...
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Doubt thou the star? (2 of 2)
I once read a (possibly apocryphal) story that a scholar who believed that Sir Francis Bacon had written the works of Shakespeare once tried to convince the critic Cyril Connolly that the son of a...
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Democratic deficit
Having spent 10 days in jail for unfurling a banner, Edd Bauer, vice-president for education at the University of Birmingham Guild of Students, has been suspended from his post as a democratically...
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Oversight is essential (1 of 2)
You report that hundreds of independent UK colleges recruiting mainly students from abroad "may go bust" as a result of the changes to the student visa system and the cost of educational oversight ("...