Ruled by the bottom line
If the Arts and Humanities Research Council will no longer support monographs ("AHRC to rethink project funding", 1 May), it might as well change its name to the Arts and Humanities Research Cull....
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Birthday boy
Congratulations to Keith Ponting (30)! I've been anxiously awaiting his birthday for many weeks and was wondering if he was just a journalistic invention, but this reassures me (The Poppletonian, 1...
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Advisory capacity only
As members of the clinical ethics service at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, we must challenge the picture painted in the article "Doing the right thing" (24 April).You imply that complex...
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From brain drain to bright future
Cambridge leads the field in producing Nobel science laureates, but many of the UK's best scientists have left to pursue work in the US. Matthew Reisz finds out from past winners what tempted them to...
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Revolution is in the air
Reform is widely felt to be overdue for French higher education, but its proponents face an entrenched and powerful universities system. Matthew Reisz assesses the appetite for change
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A global shortage of solutions
John Whitelegg on a review of current economic challenges that overpromises and underdelivers
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The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol
This book offers one of the most profound reflections on symbol since Paul de Man: subtle, original and provocative. It is a brief book, but extremely rich, and often brilliant.Nicholas Halmi's...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Manchester
1. Organizational Development: Behavioral Science Interventions for Organization Improvement by Wendell L. French and Cecil H. Bell Pearson Education, £50.99 ISBN 97801324223142. Blackstone's...
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Betting on the seeds of change
Jules Pretty weighs up the arguments for GMO solutions to Africa's continuing agricultural crisis
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Music, Sound and Multimedia: From the Live to the Virtual
We live in an age of the mass consumption of culture, and much of this involves reading, listening or playing during the daily commute. Look around at fellow passengers on public transport and you'll...
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The Holocaust
As one of the defining episodes in contemporary history, the Holocaust attracts droves of researchers and passionate controversies. In a field of study this contested and this complex there will...
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The book of the week: Castles, Battles and Bombs
What price victory? Huw Dixon weighs the odds
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The week in books
Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds, professor of international history, University of Cambridge. Allen Lane, £25.00, ISBN 9780713999174"David Reynolds reveals...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Theories of Population Variation in Genes and GenomesBy Freddy Bugge Christiansen, professor of population biology, Aarhus University. Princeton University...
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University of Cumbria - Plans for £160m expansion
Plans for a new campus and other new buildings costing £160 million have been announced by the University of Cumbria. The institution - which was formed a year ago through the merger of St Martin's...