Higher quality call for rankings
THE addresses findings of world league table survey with 'richer' use of data. Phil Baty writes
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News in brief
Research fundingDepartments need accountabilityGovernment structures need to be rethought because there is no single point of accountability when it comes to science spending, Lord Drayson has said....
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Money's tight, but we still have the scope to improve and innovate
£1 billion of cuts in the past year have hit the academy hard, but David Willetts explains how the Tories will upgrade the academy without it costing the earth
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Let's get on the right Trac
Institutions must embrace Hefce's costing methodology if they are to get the funding they want, says Stuart Palmer
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Daytime TV: It's good to talk
Gary Day is bewildered by children who don't speak, and finds prairie dogs amusingly conversational
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Premature eradication shock
A leaked email indicates that the 42 Poppleton academics who were recently invited to apply for their own jobs have already had their applications rejected.According to the email, which emanated from...
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Give 'workies' a workout
Interns deserve meaningful duties, not humiliating tasks, says Sally Feldman
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Research intelligence: Researchers with stars in their eyes
Hefce's new funding formula aims to spur world-leading research. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Rise up, freedom fighters
The cornerstone of the academy is the liberty to pursue ideas and knowledge without constraint. It needs vigilant defending
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From where I sit: Public exposes 'virtual bazaar'
India is a land teeming not just with millions of people but also, it seems, a vast number of universities.They come in all shapes and sizes, and one variety of them, known as "deemed universities",...
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Brian Case, 1947-2010
An acclaimed botanical photographer who established a pioneering course in biological imaging and was promoted to associate professor despite not having a degree has died.Brian Case was born on 24...
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When science moves, God must give way 1
Peter Harrison is quoted as damning Richard Dawkins' and his supporters' views as "intellectually vacuous, although their popularity is sociologically interesting" - a phrase that succeeds in being...
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When science moves, God must give way 2
It is hardly news to show that many early scientists had religious convictions. After all, they worked in an almost universally religious culture. And of course, science and religion "are not single...
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Naked truth
I read the story "Stark facts exposed about anti-regulation therapist" (28 January) with some surprise.I have no quarrel with any of the facts. I am aware that the battle over regulation for...