It's in the stars: new grade spurs good students to do even better
Admission-offer data suggest A* A level is an incentive to work harder. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Hotlines, Help signs and hello minister A-level results day at UCAS
Standing in front of a bustling Universities and Colleges Admissions Service call centre in Cheltenham, David Willetts is being quizzed by Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy via a live...
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Durham lifts veil on plight of student held in Iran
Fears over health of PhD candidate lead institution to abandon discreet strategy. Simon Baker writes
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Edinburgh creates record number of spin-offs
In a move that defies the chilly financial climate, a Scottish university has set a new record for the number of spin-off companies it helped to establish.During 2009-10, the University of Edinburgh...
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Aim for best in regional show to win the international recruitment prize
Study suggests universities need to 'develop a niche' to attract applicants. Hannah Fearn reports
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Daytime TV: The art of the word
What makes a novelist? Irritability? Unhappiness? Gary Day wonders whether in future it will matter
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National rankings in materials science
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-April 2010
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Another Bumper Holiday Special
Hope you're finding time between Clearing duties to relish our new Holiday Special series, in which we invite leading figures from "the Poppleton scene" to tell us about their vacation adventures....
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Point of impact
Researchers need the freedom to take risks, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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A straight case of discrimination? Lawsuits come in all shades for US institutions
Universities face civil-rights actions from white men and heterosexuals, writes Jon Marcus
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Leader: Enough of STEM's hard sell
The government is mistaken to continue arguing that science graduates alone are the key to delivering economic growth
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From where I sit - To get in, MBA is the master key
Funny how the words "funny" and "business" pair naturally. I'm a fifth-generation Australian, but with many ties to the UK. My father, daughter and I all have Cambridge PhDs, perhaps the only...
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Frank Kermode, 1919-2010
One of the most prominent, prolific and wide-ranging literary critics of his generation has died.Sir Frank Kermode was born on the Isle of Man on 29 November 1919 and educated at Douglas High School...
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Research intelligence - Forget Hal, say hello to Alice
Investing in multi-million-pound supercomputers should revolutionise research in many fields, writes Paul Jump