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Fascinating rhythm

It is great news that UK-Brazil collaboration is a rapidly growing “special relationship” (News, 3 October). THE’s coverage reported on factors such as funding and citations, but there is another...

Gut instinct winded

Nigel Probert (Letters, 3 October) opposes student feedback on the grounds that the teacher’s intuition is “a natural process more immediate and more valuable than formal feedback”. Sir Karl Popper...

Industry's vital fuel for academic engine

In response to Cary Nelson’s article “Beware: integrity at risk” (19 September): it is academia’s role to carry out impartial and independent research and analysis that provides governments, business...

Scrap personal statements, thinktank argues

Move would level playing field for state school applicants

Headhunter foresees more captains from industry

Former Tory minister Baroness Bottomley questions need for academic leadership

Doing Research That Matters: Shaping the Future of Management, by Marco Busi

Focusing on top scholars’ practices gives an incomplete picture, says Huw Morris

Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics, by Graham Farmelo

A. W. Purdue on the leader who saw the nuclear future but let it slip

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 10 October 2013

‘Lecturer made me an outcast’ - shock claim

Source: GettyNo exit: for some it’s always angst o’clockIn the wake of allegations from former students that Ralph Miliband’s lectures on politics at the London School of Economics may have amounted...

Fellow traveller

In your obituary of the distinguished American political scientist Marshall Berman (26 September), it is stated that he wrote an introduction to the latest Penguin edition of Marx’s Communist...

Cambridge still top university in table of tables

Combined figures show top five the same as last year

Sir Paul Nurse: science needs inspiration, not top-down allocation

Backing winners can lead to poor-quality research, warns Royal Society head

HEC: parties must commit to autonomous oversight

English system left vulnerable by lack of regulatory structure, commission warns

New UCL provost hints at foreign strategy overhaul

Michael Arthur is ‘not a fan’ of overseas campus approach

UK leads Europe in the fight against plagiarism

Some continental efforts to ensure integrity are ‘primitive’, study finds