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Cinema and food: a feast for the eyes
Cinema is the perfect medium to examine the role and ritual of food in family, in love and in bringing people together. Davina Quinlivan feasts her eyes
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Q&A with Stacey Gabriel
We speak to the director of the genomics platform at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
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Your time is up
Discussion about enforced retirement for older academics to make way for younger colleagues was hotly debated over the internet
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Making the ancient seem modern
Scholars strive to find explanations that clarify without stereotyping
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Grant winners
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Nadine FosterInstitution: Keele UniversityValue: 拢1,179,586Stratified care for patients with sciatica and...
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News in brief - 25 September 2014
Gay-friendlinessSix institutions score top marksSix universities have scored full marks in an assessment of how gay friendly the UK鈥檚 higher education institutions are. Just two won the same accolade...
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Campus close-up: University of Liverpool
Research hub signals support for education initiatives to tackle city鈥檚 high cancer rates
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World in brief - 25 September 2014
CanadaEncouragement to study abroadMore Canadian students should be spending time studying in a foreign country, according to the Canadian Bureau for International Education. In a submission to the...
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Economists鈥 ivory tower isolation is not an option
In Germany as elsewhere, says Brian Bloch, the economic crisis has shown the limitations of neoclassical economics
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Egypt tailors reforms on UK model
A government delegation has been inspired by British funding bodies
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Views on pensions depend on principles
Re the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (鈥淩eforms seen as 鈥榬adical attack鈥 on pensions鈥, News, 18聽September): in non-academic terms we are getting done over royally.This is...
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Chairs make a class act
In the news story 鈥淧lymouth defends 鈥樎150K spend on seven chairs鈥欌娾 (timeshigher颅education.co.uk, 20 September), David Coslett, Plymouth University鈥檚 deputy vice-chancellor, argues that new...
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Pay for the skills you want
I have the greatest respect for my colleague Dame Ann Dowling, but I wonder if industry is being entirely straight with her when it claims to need double the current number of graduate engineers (鈥...
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He scores, in two fields
Your report in The Week in 糖心Vlog (28聽August) on the student turned professional footballer and the possibility of his prize-winning essay being published (鈥渟urely the first academic...