David Colman, 1949-2011
A "polymath-in-chief" and internationally acclaimed expert on spinal injury and nerve cell development has died.David Colman was born in New York City on 4 January 1949. He studied for his first...
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No, we can't: US' 2020 vision for graduate rates is failing
Cuts and political opposition conspire to thwart Obama's college plan. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of LeicesterPeter LuntLocal boy Peter Lunt has returned to his home town to take up a post as professor of media and communication at the University of Leicester. He said he was delighted...
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Odds and quads
These images of a child receiving treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and from its Cromwell House convalescent home in North London, form part of the Historic Hospitals Admission Records...
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Research intelligence - Transatlantic affair of the heart takes off in big way
Paul Jump meets the pair whose desire to work together grew into the novel Yale UCL Collaborative
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From where I sit - Collective judgement
In New Zealand, a unique process where all universities must collectively approve all new degree programmes shows that collegiality can thrive, even in a competitive education environment.New Zealand...
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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 BrightonBuilding for biosciencesA new £23 million biosciences building that will house teaching and research laboratories has been opened by the science broadcaster Lord Robert Winston...
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The week in higher education
• Despite his donnish air, David Willetts continues to take a kicking from academics, with the University of Leeds becoming the second institution to register a vote of no confidence in him. The...
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Tome raiders
Sally Feldman hails the e-book’s rise - but many won’t abandon the paper trail
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14 July 2011
Support structures - How teacher training can help nurture world-class academics and institutions
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Give them incentives to improve
Teaching is vital, and practitioners should be accomplished in it. But converts to teacher training will not be won by compulsion
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Scholarly credits are due
If the obituary for Barbara Scholz (7 July) had too much personal detail quoted from her husband, I should perhaps blame myself: her importance to me was enormous, and when asked about her I probably...
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Teachers share the passion
I have some sympathy with David Richards' concern about the growth in temporary teaching fellowships (Letters, 30 June).However, I am mystified by his assumption that only those who take up...