Open and shut case
Your article on open-access journals, "Learning to share" (12 November), focuses on the sciences, where research is funded; university libraries that want to save on subscriptions and storage; and...
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For the record
While Sandra Kemp might like to clarify what she calls "inaccuracies" about the situation at the London College of Communication (Letters, 19 November), on behalf of more than 115 students enrolled...
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Free at last?
It's a long time since I worked in England, but I was delighted to read John Beddington's remark that "universities in the UK are justly proud of their independence from government" ("Long-overdue...
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Apt metaphor
The academic community's sympathetic response to the unmasking of "high-class hooker" "Belle de Jour" should come as no surprise ("Prostitution did not finance Belle de Jour's PhD", 19 November). Her...
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Deborah Baker, 1949-2009
A world-renowned expert on inequalities in health has died.Deborah Baker was born in London on 23 September 1949 and studied at Brunel University before qualifying as a psychologist in 1973.She went...
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No happiness at Poppleton - official
One of our leading low-scoring RAE academics has joined in the debate about the value of the ESRC's £4.4 million project investigating the relationship between work and happiness.Dr Quintock, of the...
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Go find those marrows
Sally Feldman mourns the demise of local papers and regional television
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From where I sit: Northern exposure
They say the best way to handle nerves when public speaking is to imagine your audience naked, but that wasn't much help when I gave a talk at the British Naturism winter bash somewhere in the north...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research intelligence: Saved from extinction
A new funding scheme aims to revive research in systematics and taxonomy. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Leader: Competing is fine but make it fair
As private providers make inroads into the sector, it's only right that all institutions are subject to the same rules
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Grant winners
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCILAbout EUR325 million (£292 million) has been awarded by the ERC to the winners of its second Starting Grant competition. The awards, which are each worth up to EUR2 million,...
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Buzz off, brainiac
Insects could be as intelligent as larger animals, despite having brains the size of pinheads, scientists have said. Writing in the Current Biology journal, Lars Chittka, professor of sensory and...
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Canterbury Christ Church University - It's business time
A faculty of business and management has been established at Canterbury Christ Church University. The faculty will combine the university's undergraduate and postgraduate business courses, and will...
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University of Edinburgh - Hide the fags
Students at the University of Edinburgh have voted to keep cigarettes out of sight on campus. At the annual general meeting of the Edinburgh University Students' Association, students passed a motion...