THE 100 Under 50: Speed from a standing start
Free from tradition and baggage, a wave of upstarts are challenging their elders. Phil Baty investigates
Free from tradition and baggage, a wave of upstarts are challenging their elders. Phil Baty investigates
Andrew Oswald relates vice-chancellors' pay (Soapbox, THES , February 7) to that of chief executives in business and industry, where rates can be as high as £500,000 to £1 million a year. Most people...
Keeping faith in the academy's core missions of research and education is the best way to serve students, society and the sector
The extent of an international "brain drain" to the US is revealed in a new study by Warwick University, to be presented at an international conference this month. The study tracks the careers of...
I have carried out a very similar study to Andrew Oswald's but I drew very different conclusions from my results. I studied the citation history of more than 600 papers published in 1990 in six...
It is all very well for Andrew Oswald to state that "People design their lives the way they want" ("Got a space to think but no space for your car?", February 10). But many people cannot. I spent...
Weighing in at 80,000 words, the first PhD in text messaging was longer than the 160 characters of a standard SMS. The doctorate was completed by Caroline Tagg, who spent three and a half years...
Few of Britain's Nobel prizewinners are or were "public" intellectuals. Most of them hid. Even today, the names of winners are usually unknown to the public. Funding bodies want academics in the...
Society , a new journal to be launched next year by the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, will aim to publish papers that cut across social sciences boundaries. Some academics...
Reading your survey of academics' opinions is like opening a time capsule and suggests there is widespread reluctance to face up to the future ("Growth is blamed for fall in standards", THES , May 11...
THE GUARDIAN Marking at Liverpool John Moores University was a "shambles" according to a former external examiner's confidential report. Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, is...
Research councils recently reminded us that they are required to demonstrate the impact of the research they fund. These bodies, our proxies for protecting the health and development of academic...
Focus on 'top' research units must be rethought, economist's analysis suggests. John Gill writes
Andrew Oswald considers recent moves in economics, famously the most dismal of sciences, to take the happiness and psychological health of the population as seriously as a country's GDP
Concerns about 'grade inflation' as panels 'put too many people in the 4* box'. Zoe Corbyn reports