Standard Response: Good tools but you need to show how they work
Universities value the "toolkit" they use to set academic standards, but the kit is doing little to reassure the public, a review has found.
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Private virtues include 3% pay rise for staff
As higher education staff in state-funded universities contemplate the possibility of a 0.4 per cent pay deal, a private college is trumpeting its 3 per cent pay rise as evidence of the virtues of...
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Cut REF work: Check the best and sample the rest
RAE assessor suggests a way to reduce costs, save time and improve quality. Paul Jump reports
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#LoveHE: Making your own luck
Anshul Tomer, a successful actor and singer, is thankful for the life-changing experience of studying in Edinburgh
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Changing the timetable: Academic freedom or just plain annoying?
John Turner has given up trying to please everyone. Restricting the choices of a few is a necessary part of protecting the majority
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Top 20 Journals in Neuroscience and Behaviour
JournalPapersCitationsCitations Per Paper1Science714103,741145.302Nature69392,089132.883Nature Reviews Neuroscience72579,822110.104Nature Neuroscience2,039143,67970.475Neuron3,121213,65068.466Trends...
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Here comes your Holiday Special!
This is the time of year when academics take full advantage of their two-week statutory holiday allowance and seek out pastures new. And this year, The Poppletonian will be going with some of them.In...
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Be different, be (s)quids in
Teaching graduates how to think will help them get jobs, says Tim Birkhead
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: The way to infinitives and beyond
Why is it always only the young, who are still learning, who are taken to task over poor spelling and grammar?"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split," the writer...
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From where I sit - Wish list for the new term
As Australia goes to a federal election on 21 August, there is a scrabble by politicians to cadge votes by chirruping buzzwords and making lavish promises.But neither the prime minister Julia Gillard...
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Tony Judt, 1948-2010
One of the most celebrated – and controversial – historians of his generation has died. Tony Judt was born in London on 2 January 1948 into a multilingual Jewish family. Between the ages of 15 and 19...
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University of Oxford - French toast
A university foundation aiming to publish the complete works of the French philosopher Voltaire has received an award from the Academie Francaise. The Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford...
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Research intelligence - A geneticist in the House
Cambridge academic and Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert is a champion for science in the new Parliament. Paul Jump reports
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Sifting great students from the very good
The fear that state-school students, or pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, will be overlooked by top universities is not a new concern brought about by the introduction of A* grades at A level.It...