This policy's just not working
Processing hordes of semi-interested young people in teaching factories is no way to promote economic growth, argues Joe Bone. At Northern New University, I ask politics students what a civil servant...
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Why I... believe taking deep breaths does nothing for stammering
Everyone makes mistakes when they speak. Up to 15 per cent of an average person's speech can contain dysfluencies. By listening to ourselves as we talk, auditing our output for hesitations,...
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Brit favourite has the edge
If the national anthem plays when Alex Coomber collects a gold medal in the forthcoming Winter Olympics, a London academic will be justified in claiming some of the glory, writes Steve Farrar. Peter...
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Union fury as v-c pay hits £309k
The public spending watchdog is being urged to investigate possible abuse of public funds after some former vice-chancellors doubled their incomes last year. Sir John Daniel, former vice-chancellor...
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Analysis: What they get could staff a university
Up to 1,000 academics could be paid from what heads of institutions earn. Alison Goddard adds up the rewards. The heads of universities and colleges shared almost £20 million in pay between them last...
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In the news: John Daniel
As former vice-chancellor of the Open University, Sir John Daniel was identified as the highest paid university head in the same week that the United States Open University he founded announced it...
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Lab-solutely fabulous
She's Italy's La Professoressa, role model for feminists and cham-pion of cash-starved researchers, but for her, science is there to help the world's poor. Paul Bompard meets Rita Levi Montalcini....
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Behind our love is a lust for new life
In our series on Big Science Questions, Tim Birkhead looks at research in male-female attraction. We have all felt that little zing! when we see someone we fancy, and a much greater ZING! when these...
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Is love just a 'trick' that dissuades us from leaving when logic tells us we really should walk away?
In our series on Big Science Questions, David Buss finds that a lust for love is a universal trait. Why someone falls in love with one person rather than another from the thousands of potential...
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Business buys into deals with diplomacy
As the global economy increasingly thrusts big business into conflict with pressure groups and NGOs, demand has risen for a new academic discipline - 'corporate diplomacy'. Tony Durham reports....
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France still feels the force of his habitus
The legacy of Pierre Bourdieu (right), a giant of sociology, is the rigour with which others continue exposing the brutal truth of life under capitalism, writes Fred Inglis. With the death on January...
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Silent suffering of caring sector
Without action to halt its demographic time bomb, social work will continue to decline, argues Terry Philpot. Who is Mr or Ms Social Worker? The popular image, and one occasionally peddled by...
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Don't worry, you are highly marketable
For academics who find themselves back on the job market, the advice is to rip up your CV and to see yourself as 'a solution', Olga Wojtas explains. As the financial pressures on higher education...
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If only Flash Gordon were Steady Eddie
Is the reason that women are outperforming men academically really due to the switch away from exams to coursework? Ruth Woodfield looks at the evidence. When Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam...
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Men shopping? A load of billiard balls
Katrina Honeyman reveals how one man managed to lure male shoppers out of the closet and take the embarrassment out of a feminine pursuit - thus setting the stage to make the buying of clothes...