Leader: He who pays the piper...
Universities cannot be truly competitive unless they can set pay locally. Like it or not, national bargaining is a dead duck
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From where I sit - Not just preserve of the state
This year is an archaeological milestone of sorts. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the government department involved in the preservation of antiquities and monuments in India, will...
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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 AberdeenWicked switch of the WestResearchers have discovered a DNA "switch" that turns on certain genes in cells that may show that Europeans are more predisposed to binge on fatty food...
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The week in higher education
• "A shelf stacker at Waitrose has more power in the corporate governance of the firm than I do as an academic at London Met." So said Maurice Glasman, the political theory lecturer and "Blue Labour...
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Altered states for the lawmakers of the new measurement frontier
Citations and impact factors are old hat, says Matthew Gamble; the Web 2.0 generation needs metrics to match today’s scholarship
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Song for Europe
We must listen to the Continent’s sounds and sweet airs, says Malcolm Gillies
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28 July 2011
Seeds of knowledge - The apps putting scholarship in the palm of your hand
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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EPSRC starts to impose order on its universe
Some fields gain, some lose as council adjusts funding to ‘shape capability’. Paul Jump reports
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You may scoff, but our students won't
Although it may seem presumptuous of one of those cursorily dismissed "poorer universities and colleges" to take issue with both Simon Blackburn and John Stuart Mill in one letter, might I suggest...
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A noisome affair
Martin Cohen's unpleasant review of my book Believing Bullshit ("Strong whiff of a weak argument", 21 July) begins: "Do you believe in God? Or even wonder if there might be a purpose to the universe...
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Free thinkers will not apply
The president of the British Academy astutely notes ("Reforms pose danger, but arts and humanities should prosper", 23 July) that the bulk of the White Paper is an attempt to address "issues" arising...
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Joined-up nonsense
Having read the joint statement from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Research Councils UK and Universities UK on impact, published undated on the RCUK website, I wondered if Laurie...
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Which way the whim blows
As noted in "REF guidance sets up the starting blocks" (21 July), "if an output involves collaborators from more than one university, all institutions may submit it and panels will assess it on an '...