Lord Drayson defends REF's principles
Travelling by train to a Cabinet meeting the morning after a Times Higher Education-sponsored debate on the future of blue-skies research, Lord Drayson, the Science Minister, reported on Twitter that...
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Weightings and measures: British academy wants shallower impact
The national academy for the humanities and social sciences has called for a 10 per cent reduction in the research excellence framework's impact weighting, cautioning that the current figure is too...
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Funding cuts create staff and course turmoil
The vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds refused to rule out compulsory redundancies or course closures during a live webcast that crashed under the weight of numbers accessing it.Michael...
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Second union backs 0.5% pay increase
Negotiations with employers also produce 'digest' on avoiding redundancies. John Morgan writes
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Would-be students not getting the message about bursaries
Information often comes too late to influence the choice of where to study. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Assembly sets out Wales' spending priorities
The Welsh Assembly Government is to overhaul the way it spends its £450 million annual budget for higher education.The strategy, announced last week by Jane Hutt, Minister for Education, includes...
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Daytime TV: Of loss and longing
No one on The X Factor compares to Gracie Fields, who brought her art to millions, says Gary Day
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Top ten chemists
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999-June 2009
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'Why not choose a happier subject?'
Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson explain that they study rape and its narratives to understand and demythologise a difficult and unpleasant subject. But such is the taboo, it's tough to discuss...
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Poetry cornered
Goodbye, sweet Calliope, farewell Erato? In a consumerist world where speed and image rule, poetry's emotional meanings are being lost. Neil McBride muses, partly through verse, on the future of this...
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The French disconnection
Bruno Cousin and Michèle Lamont say academics at France's public universities need to rethink their strategy after this year's protests alienated the public and had little impact on the Government
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3 December 2009
Ruffled feathers - French universities and reform
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Tara Brabazon: YouTube has merit, but enough already of cat videos
There are plenty of opportunities for academics to take advantage of social media, but it’s important to separate the gems of revelation from the nonsense
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Business fails to rise to Government’s R&D challenge
Midway through ten-year framework, investment remains ‘relatively static’ as percentage of GDP. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Science, we have a problem
Debate leads to anger over Lord Drayson’s accusation that scientists don’t fully recognise their accountability to taxpayers. Zoë Corbyn reports