UK R&D spending: Less on swords, more on ploughshares
Spending on defence research and development in the UK has declined by 57 per cent since 1989, data from the Office for National Statistics show.
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School of Advanced Study’s Kain: we’re able to take lead
Dean looks to humanities future after Hefce funding renewal
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News in brief - 28 March 2013
United StatesWell-funded Korea move for UtahA US university’s trustees have approved a plan to open a branch campus in South Korea. With the support of subsidies from the South Korean government, the...
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News in brief - 28 March 2013
Widening accessExtended pathways to lawA programme to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to become lawyers is being extended thanks to a £1.2 million grant from a charitable foundation...
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Values are at the heart of social science: John Brewer
Ex-president of British Sociological Association argues for renewal of disciplines
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Odds and quads - 28 March 2013
These are just two of the plant samples, now held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, that Carl Peter Thunberg brought back from his pioneering expedition to Japan in 1775.
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Campus round-up - 28 March 2013
Source: Dominic StaffordShrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of...
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‘Important’ UK universities said to be planning Brazilian offices
British Council discussions are under way, reports Donna Bowater from Rio de Janeiro
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Mexico faces some primary problems
A powerful union, weak teaching and outmoded curricula are hampering progress. Matt Krupnick reports from Oaxaca
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Grant winners - 28 March 2013
The Wellcome TrustInvestigators in Medical HumanitiesThese awards range from about £500,000 to just over £1 million for up to five yearsAward winner: Steven SturdyInstitution: University of...
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THE Scholarly Web - 28 March 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Appointments - 28 March 2013
University of LeedsPaul Stewart“I had a tear in my eye,” said the new dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds of the moment he learned of his appointment, which will take him back...
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Public good, public service
The public-private balance of funding sources needs to be adjusted to protect the public interest, says Roger Brown
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Political lottery
Alan Ryan considers a new method of governance