London Met governors asked to consider their position
Hefce puts officials on the spot after review finds them responsible for fiasco. Rebecca Attwood reports
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What happens in the blog, stays in the blog
In light of the unmasking of Belle de Jour as a scientist, Petra Boynton, who blogs about sex and science, says institutions must balance privacy, scholarship and advocacy
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Roper is to blame for fiasco, but London Met’s board bears responsibility
Report into overpayments to university finds top officials were aware of problems but took no action. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Gillies to lead London Met
Former head of City named vice-chancellor. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Do you want to be in my gang?
Some say mission groups help air vital issues collegially, but others think they selfishly expose the sector to divide-and-rule tactics. Melanie Newman looks at the group dynamics
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In the heavens, as it is on Earth
Proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life may be closer than we think, thanks to a surge of research in astrobiology. Lewis Dartnell is determined to ascertain that we are not alone
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Book of the week: Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets
Jon Turney on the DNA pioneer's life and long career
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Milton's Words
The individual phrases of a great poet's work are freighted with significance, says Sophie Read
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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
You might be forgiven for expecting a 1,000-page book to be a little self-indulgent. Not this one. The prose is taut and tart, sometimes to the point of breathlessness; and it is an astonishing feat...
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The Canon. Reading Dancing. By Susan Leigh Foster
Reading Dancing enjoys somewhat emblematic status as a core text in the young discipline of dance studies. Published in 1986, it argues vehemently against the notion that dancing - and by extension,...
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The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and Photography
Laura González on the meanings beneath people's compulsion to capture images of places visited
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The Culture of Knitting
As a knitter and an academic (although not an academic in the field of visual or textile arts), I found this treatise on the culture of knitting an engaging read. I consider myself well plugged in to...
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Comparing Conrad: Essays on Joseph Conrad and His Implied Dialogues with Other Writers
This book has no ISBN. "Can it even exist?" I hear booksellers and librarians ask. It hasn't even come from a publishing house. It is a self-published work. I can now detect the gasps of appalled...
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Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
It's high time Roy Kerr's contribution to theoretical physics was recognised, writes Graham Farmelo
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He Was Some Kind of Man: Masculinities in the B Western
There's an assumption - and this is not about proprietary disciplinary boundaries - that anyone can write about film. As many studies attest, this is manifestly not the case. He Was Some Kind of Man...