Neutral value for Treasury adviser
Department's first scientific chief sets out his stall firmly in the middle of the road. Paul Jump reports
Search
-
-
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
Degas may be long dead, but his figures move through time to remind us of the beauty of his work and its visceral power, writes Michael Howard
-
Diary
LondonHamra Abbas: CitiesKuwaiti-born artist Hamra Abbas was educated in Lahore and Berlin, and now divides her time between Boston and Islamabad. The works on display at the Green Cardamom gallery...
-
The Pick - Life and Fate
Credit: BBC/Estate of Vasily GrossmanFirst-hand experience: Vasily Grossman's manuscript was "arrested"Life and FateBBC Radio 4The Archers is sacrosanct. But from Sunday 18 September until a week...
-
Big Poppleton welcome for new UUK approach
Kirk Swavely, our Senior Manager of External Relations, has welcomed the "brave" policy stance recently adopted by Eric Thomas, the new president of Universities UK.Swavely told our reporter Keith...
-
TV reviews: Are You Good or Evil? & Appropriate Adult
Finding a gene for psychopathy does not help us face depravity beyond comprehension, says Gary Day
-
Film review: Bill Cunningham New York
Duncan Wu is charmed by a modest octogenarian photographer and the vivid street style he documents
-
Geoffrey Ford, 1942-2011
In addition to being a distinguished librarian, Geoffrey Ford was also famed for his "astoundingly untidy" office and formidable collection of Rudyard Kipling books.Born in 1942, Mr Ford studied...
-
Appointments
University of LeedsTheo RaynorIt was the white coats of the pharmacists at his local Boots store in Skegness that inspired Theo Raynor to pursue a degree in the field. Now Professor Raynor, currently...
-
Odds and quads
These images of monkeys, from around 1840, are magic lantern slides.
-
Research intelligence - Worth the paper it's written on?
How important are doctoral students to research - and vice versa? Jon Cartwright reports
-
Leader: Not such a superpower after all
It is folly to emulate a US higher education system that, according to OECD figures, is failing so many of its young citizens
-
From where I sit - Time to stop 'spruiking' PhDs
OK. I shall be the one to raise the question that cries out to be asked of my country's university staff, administrators and government financiers. Why do we enrol so many PhDs? Why do we entice so...
-
What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
Campus round-up
University of UlsterGolden opportunityNorthern Ireland has been selected as the location for a Confucius Institute. Designed to foster academic, cultural, economic and social ties between China and...