Brand on the run
Our Head of Brand Development, Norman Bovril, has responded forcefully to the news that the Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings place Poppleton as the 8,914th highest-regarded university in...
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Jack Forbes, 1934-2011
Jack Forbes, a pioneer of Native American studies, was not afraid to take "unpopular and risky" decisions, and helped to found the first Native American college in California.Professor Forbes was...
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TV review: Wonders of the Universe
'Why are we here? Where do we come from?' Brian Cox has the answers, says Gary Day
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Film review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Woody Allen's latest satire has worthwhile things to say of the US. Pity it's set in Britain, says Duncan Wu
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Odds and quads: Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection
These charts, pictures and illustrations (see images, right) all form part of the Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection at the University of Reading.
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The rest was silence
Inept alumni communications derail the desire to give, says Tim Birkhead
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Research intelligence - Empty buckets or pure gold?
Open-access advocates ponder weak repository growth as publishers restate dire warnings. Paul Jump reports
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The Pick - Shakespeare's Globe
From first base to learning space
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From where I sit - After the quake: we shall carry on
When the earthquake hits I am dozing with a pile of academic journals on my lap.It's spring vacation here in Japan and with university entrance examinations completed I've got a month to catch up on...
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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
Surrey/EssexMore Zzzs for ABC1sUnemployed people are 40 per cent more likely to report difficulty sleeping than those in work, according to findings from the world's largest longitudinal household...
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The week in higher education
He has hogged the headlines for weeks, was sacked from a sitcom for which he was paid $2 million (£1.5 million) an episode, and was photographed drinking "tiger blood" while waving a machete on the...
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17 March 2011
Matter of conviction - Academic judgement: the sine qua non of scholarly life
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Leader: Work of infinite value
Science alone cannot get to the heart of what makes us human, which is why the humanities and social sciences matter so much
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In this climate, USS plans are generous
In a letter to Times Higher Education on 10 March ("Employers, it's Acas or action - your choice"), Sally Hunt, the University and College Union's general secretary, threatens strike action to...