Marketing can benefit from a touch of all that jazz
Academic and musician stresses the need for improvisation and fun. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
Business engagementSpin-offs up by a quarterThe number of spin-off companies set up by universities rose by a quarter in 2009-10, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The HE Business...
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News in brief
United StatesRhoades trails back to ArizonaThe highest-paid executive at the American Association of University Professors is to leave his post and return to his old job at the University of Arizona...
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Battered but unbowed, L'Aquila abides
Devastating earthquake has not dimmed university spirit, says rector. Diana Garrisi reports
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Minister: rankings helped inspire French reforms
Sweeping reforms of French higher education were prompted in part by its performance in world university rankings, the country's higher education minister has suggested.
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Quality street blues
Roger Brown offers a dystopian vision of university closures, cheap, unregulated for-profits and declining standards
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What a rip-off! US-style fees will undermine value for money here
Forget what the global rankings say: Europe is a worthier model for the UK as students there get a far better deal, argues Anthony Glees
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Let variety flourish
Julian Beer and colleagues warn that the U-Multirank ranking system lacks flexibility and will not reflect institutions' missions
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Top institutions in Mathematics
Top institutions in MathematicsData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 2001-28 February 2011 InstitutionPapersCitationsHighly cited% highly cited...
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Object lessons in new shapes
Ceramicist and scholar Edmund de Waal argues for combining museum collections with recent work. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
LondonUn peu de tendresse bordel de merde!Canadian choreographer Dave St-Pierre has been a major force in the contemporary dance scene for more than five years, an enfant terrible whose work has...
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Close the door behind you
Our Corporate Director of Human Resources, Louise Bimpson, has welcomed the news that University College London plans to outsource all its cleaning and security services.Ms Bimpson told our reporter...
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MPs' heinous abuse of privileged position
During the Commons debate on human trafficking on 18 May 2011, Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham, quoting from the list of essay titles for an academic political theory course at the London School of...
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Work-to-rule is way forward
We must hope that the unfair and useless response of hitting the students through strikes and assessment boycotts, trotted out by the sample of University and College Union presidents and chairs in...
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Index-linked spoilers
As a card-carrying member of the attention-deficit generation, at least as far as novels are concerned, the article by Valerie Sanders ("Docked tales", 26 May) reinforced a long-held view about...