Brain waves from the sea
In Search of Memory
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a dictator who was assassinated: "The whole of Gaul is divided into threeparts, one of which...
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Missing crucial monkey business
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development
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Tools that cobbled together our faiths
Six Impossible Things before Breakfast
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Sensational visions of self
Seeing Red
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Minds met at neuron junction
Nerve Endings, the Discovery of the Synapse
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Our heavenly bodies make for hot dates
Astronomy
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Spinning yarns from the East
Silk and Empire
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Crumbling campuses face £5bn repair bill
Many buildings 'at serious risk of major failure'. Jessica Shepherd reports. Almost a third of university buildings in England are unfit for use or are in need of repair, a report for the Government...
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How e-mail blunder made talks redundant
It was bad enough to receive an e-mail warning that they were facing the threat of compulsory redundancy. But further misery was heaped on five academics at Nottingham Trent University when the...
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'The developing world must have a central say on climate change'
Ian Goldin insists that a united international consensus can help tackle burning issues such as climate change It is a good thing that Ian Goldin is an optimist. As the first director of the James...
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On the move...
* John Zarnecki , professor of space science in the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at the Open University, has been appointed director of the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and...
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V-cs snub plan for RAE reform
UUK and research elite criticise Treasury's metrics-based proposals for funding allocation, saying they undermine 2008 exercise. Lee Elliot Major writes. Universities this week delivered a crushing...
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New recruit to ranks faces revolt over 'imposing' local pay deal
Britain's newest university is threatened with a national academic boycott and mass legal action just two weeks after it gained the title. The University and College Union said this week that Edge...
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Shortlists celebrate diversity
More than 90 of the UK's 115 universities have taken part in this year's Times Higher Awards. The shortlisted candidates are revealed today in a special awards supplement, writes Gerard Kelly....