The 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference will mark the latest attempt to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. For some it will be a chance to breathe new life into pursuing the abolition...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell finds much truth in the stories about a taciturn physicist
America: Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds, professor of international history and fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge. Allen Lane, £30.00, ISBN 9781846140563"Tracing the long dialectic between...
Susan Currell examines the story behind the legal battle against forced sterilisation of convicts
Simon Lee will leave at the end of the academic year. Melanie Newman reports
British academics contemplating the research assessment exercise over a glass of something strong would do well to consider the alternative: working in a university system that makes no attempt to...
Happiness is an academic job at Poppleton. That is the conclusion to be drawn from the recent joint report from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association and Universities UK on staff...
Sally Feldman urges partnerships with both Israel's and Palestine's academies
National Theatre-going regular Rivka Isaacson finds compelling drama in the early morning cast of characters waiting to buy day tickets
Keeping faith in the academy's core missions of research and education is the best way to serve students, society and the sector
Tom Graham, university librarian at Newcastle University, has died.He was brought up in Glasgow, graduated in history from the University of Glasgow and then decided to train as a librarian by...
There are some interesting contradictions regarding higher education research. Your feature ("Practise what you preach", 8 January) suggests that research into higher education in the UK is little...
I am genuinely baffled by the assertion that higher education research in the UK languishes in the doldrums.At the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers' conference in Pavia last September, a...
The peculiar methodology of the research assessment exercise was always likely to produce strange league tables ("Reviewers raise concerns about RAE gameplaying", 8 January). Take the composition of...
Your disturbing facts about sport and the RAE are pointed, highly relevant and continue to reinforce one's view that this country still has some way to go in its approach to sport.In my experience,...