Council denies neuroscience is target for cuts
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has hit back at accusations that it is singling out neuroscience for cuts.
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Publishers see light in free-for-all vision
Report on increasing access to research papers rejects pay-per-view proposal, writes Paul Jump
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NUS opts for moderate voices and choices over Left turns
Cooler heads prevail at the student union's annual convention, reports Sarah Cunnane
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News in brief
South AfricaNot in my nameTwo South African universities have vowed to prosecute anyone found to have used a bogus degree issued in their name. The universities of Johannesburg and Cape Town acted...
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Our first duty is to the future, not to government, rectors say
Disregard diktats and focus on your core missions, universities told. Hannah Fearn reports from Aarhus
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Pick a book, any book
Shocked by his students' great reluctance to read, Nicholas Morton sought a way to get them hooked on the habit
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Diary
LondonChouf OuchoufIn the medina of Tangiers, people live 10 to a house and it's easy to be overlooked. If you don't shout, you'll never be heard; if you don't push to the front, you'll never be seen...
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The Pick - Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
Credit: Untitled (from The Brave Ones series)/Zwelethu Mthethwa/Jack Shainman GalleryFigures & Fictions: Contemporary South African PhotographyVictoria and Albert Museum, LondonPhotography has...
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'It's the system what done it' - Dave
The two men in sole charge of our university maintenance, "Dave" and "Vince", have admitted that they are dealing with the university's pressing infrastructural crisis by "largely making things up as...
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Marshall Grossman, 1948-2011
Marshall Grossman was a renowned and award-winning Milton scholar who could make people "laugh hard and think harder".He studied for his first degree at the State University of New York, Binghamton,...
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TV review: The Great Estate: The Rise and Fall of the Council House
As the council house dream falls into disrepair, Gary Day sees a spirit of frugality and thrift rekindled
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Film review: Cedar Rapids
Duncan Wu detects smug bigotry in the sourly 'comic' tale of a middle-aged naif's business trip
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Odds and quads
Clement Attlee (1883-1967) served as deputy prime minister in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition government before going on to win a spectacular victory in the general election of 1945.
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Tweet sensations
Tim Birkhead finds a valuable lesson in the story of the bullfinch trainers
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Research intelligence - Flowering in the sandpit
Enthusiastic response to UK-US 'ideas lab' may see photosynthesis research blossom. Paul Jump reports