The RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health-related research. Colin Smith, who chairs the British Medical Association's medical academic staff committee, has said that an...
Copenhagen University scientists are leading a Danish expedition in Greenland to search for fragments of a meteorite that crashed to the ground last December and which could help solve some mysteries...
Education research in the United Kingdom is "disturbingly sloppy and partisan" and the Pounds 70 million of public money it costs could be put to better use with a huge rationalisation of research...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a novel by a religious Greek politician that was later turned into a film...
The Complete Works of George Orwell
George Orwell
On Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down Which single book has meant most to me, intellectually? The truest response, for anyone who retains pretensions to mental vivacity, is: whatever one...
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
The Picasso Papers
Molecules of Emotion
Insights of Genius
At the Water's Edge
One year after Ron Dearing published his report on the future of higher education, Alan Thomson asks him if he accepts the charge that its 1,700 pages have turned out to be a costly white elephant It...
Worldly wise 9. The information age will widen the gap between rich and poor and erode the power of the state, Manuel Castells tells Martin Ince, on the Internet Not many academics would be upset at...
Mike Presdee tells Alison Utley how an Australian state government tried to suppress his research Academic freedom has always been under threat from some predator or other, but as universities...