Managers must be qualified to herd the academic cats
Qualifications would boost legitimacy and protect research, scholar argues. John Morgan reports
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Cambridge has spoken: 'Statute U' is rejected
Scholars fighting to keep the University of Cambridge as a self- governing institution have claimed victory after proposed changes to its disciplinary rules were rejected.Opponents of the plans for "...
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Beyond identity born of trembling
Celebrated historian calls for an end to the 'Jewish history wars'. Matthew Reisz reports
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Overseas briefing
ChinaPussy gore galore: strays?An elite Chinese university has denied allegations that it used stray cats collected from the streets for medical experiments. To rebut the accusation, officials at...
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Il Cavaliere's invitation to the 'friends' of liberalism
Italian PM plans private university ... and wants Vladimir Putin on board. Colin Graham reports
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Climategate-inspired fraud probe kicks up storm
A row over academic freedom has broken out in the US over a state attorney general's demands that a university release documents relating to research-grant applications.Ken Cuccinelli, attorney...
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Grant winners
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: R.A. OliverInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £593,937Materials World Network to optimise the growth of InGaN quantum dots...
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A rush of endorphins
Before music became his life, a university writing course provided Liam Fray with creative stimulation and excitement
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Con-Lib show promises the academy thrills, chills and bellyaches
Students, fees and cuts will dominate the Westminster soap opera's higher education plotlines. Anna Fazackerley offers an early review
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Solid grounding: the humanities roots that support our STEMs
Donald L. Drakeman on science's need to look to less measurable but possibly more meaningful disciplines for insights and guidance
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Little Britain must expand
If the academy is to survive, it needs domestic support to take the offensive internationally, argues Anthony Seldon
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Hot papers in neuroscience
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-December 2009
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The week in higher education
The "hardest exam in the world", in which the cream of Oxford graduates are challenged to write for three hours about a single word, has been dropped. For almost a century the exam has been set as...
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Willetts: I come not to impose, but to distil
Universities minister wants to learn from and work with sector, but cuts beckon. John Morgan writes
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Lib Dem division on fees abolition
Party leaders think election pledge is 'nonsense', UUK chief executive claims. John Morgan reports