Post-1992s give sector an object lesson in instruction
But HEA awards also point to rising focus on good teaching at older universities. Jack Grove reports
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Cardiff dean's laboratory under investigation once again after fresh misconduct allegations
Cardiff University is to investigate multiple fresh allegations of research misconduct relating to papers produced in the laboratory of its dean of medicine.
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?7m donation for research close to Leicester's heart
A record ?7 million donation to the University of Leicester will see the institution double its fundraising for the fourth year in a row since setting up a development office.
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Nerc: no clouds on blue-skies horizons
Council defends decision to withdraw a third of its PhD project studentships. Paul Jump reports
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Ernst decries firms' large dose of cash for pro-homeopathy website
Paul Jump on scientist's undiluted zeal for probing alternative 'cures' despite lack of Exeter successor
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US turns drama study into a crisis
Elizabeth Gibney on new loan restrictions affecting Americans attending renowned UK conservatoires
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News in brief
Olympic legacyFrom no dope to medical hopeThe anti-doping facilities serving the London 2012 Games will become a research centre for personalised medicine. The MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre will rapidly...
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format
Sound compression and mobile audio storage are changing how we listen, finds Hillegonda Rietveld
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Rome: An Empire's Story
An illuminating guide maps out a fast-track course to a dazzling imperial overview for Ronald Mellor
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Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year
Superlatives are immediately suspect, and "greatest" more than most, so the subtitle of Catherine Jurca's book is likely to arouse critical misgivings. But it is soon apparent that the phrase doesn't...
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The Woman Reader
This ambitious book maps out the relatively undeveloped field of women's reading habits across time and cultures, all in fewer than 350 pages. It is not an easy task, but Belinda Jack accomplishes it...
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Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
The absence of the didactic from this study of lone parents makes it all the stronger, says Mary Evans
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Bioethics: All that Matters
The title of this book implies that it will provide an introduction to "all that matters" in bioethics, but anyone who buys it believing that it offers an overview of the modern discipline will be...
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Shakespeare's Shrine: The Bard's Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon
Earlier this year, 糖心Vlog reported on a visit to Japan by Dominic Shellard, who went accompanied by a Shakespeare First Folio. The volume had been borrowed from the British Library at...
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Let academic freedom ring
Martha Biondi on the black student protests of the 1960s and 1970s that transformed US campus life and led to the birth of African American studies