Mixed reviews greet delayed US research rankings
A multi-million-dollar exercise to rate research programmes in the US has resulted in controversy, with critics questioning its usefulness.As reported by Times Higher Education online, the National...
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Machinating machines
Computers can auto-generate processes, so can we really use them for scientific research if we can't control them? asks Aleks Krotoski
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The week in higher education
Continuing his mission to enthuse the masses about science, Brian Cox told readers of The Sun that life in the laboratory was not only for "clever people with frizzy white hair". Writing on 30...
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Fee market selection: find a niche or go extinct
Universities lacking distinctive missions will disappear, pro v-c warns. Simon Baker reports
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It is a popularity contest, sisters
Likeability, not competence, is the key to women assuming top posts. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Global elite looks set to be dethroned by the young rebels
Conference speakers analyse, attack and back world rankings, John Morgan reports
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UK and Chinese institutions need a cultural revolution to become true international attractions
British universities have work to do if they are to become truly international institutions, according to an expert at one of the UK's overseas pioneers.Christine Ennew, pro vice-chancellor for...
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FoI guidance aims to avoid 'Climategate' II
A task force is being established to draft a set of guidelines on how universities should respond to Freedom of Information Act requests in the wake of the "Climategate" affair.The University of East...
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Visa stranglehold chokes recruitment
Critics warn of impact on UK research as managers struggle with overseas quotas. John Morgan reports
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Pensions powwow set to begin as union offers alternative narrative
USS reforms on consultation agenda, but UCU aims to build opposition online. John Morgan reports
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Divided we fall
The sector needs agreement on pensions and job security if it is to resist savage coalition cuts, argues Sally Hunt
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Critical balance: the enterprising academy must retain its values
Mike Boxall and Paul Woodgates explain how universities can thrive despite mass retrenchment and pressure from private competitors
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Thinking, inside the box
BBC Four aims to touch parts of the brain other channels do not reach. Matthew Reisz speaks to Richard Klein, its controller, who says that academics, together with their passions, have key roles to...
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Mac the knife
Duncan Wu's inner adolescent rejoices in a crazy tale of an armed pensioner's battle with injustice
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Daytime TV: Creative impulses
Gauguin and Vaughan Williams had unconventional private lives, but they created beauty, says Gary Day