Year of living dangerously
In puritan times, says Thomas Docherty, we need sabbaticals more than ever
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Research Intelligence - 'Predators' who lurk in plain cite
Paul Jump on dubious open-access journals keen to attract unwary academics - and their cash
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The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense
A season dedicated to the UK’s greatest film-maker shows that there is more to his sensibility than misogyny, Davina Quinlivan argues
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2 August 2012
A&E and R&D - Building research into the fabric of the NHS
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Brazil's brightest head to US after failing UK language test
British border bureaucracy thwarts Science Without Borders scheme. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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QAA logo available to universities as quality mark
The Quality Assurance Agency for 糖心Vlog has launched a quality mark to assure students about standards in higher education.
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London 2012 legacy to include medical research centre
The anti-doping facilities serving the London 2012 Games will become a “groundbreaking” research centre into personalised medicine after the Olympics have ended, it has been announced.
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‘Considerable’ support for plan to scrap tariff points
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service’s tariff points scheme is a step closer to being scrapped after a consultation showed there was “considerable” support for the move.
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Physicists have eye on new ?1.9m prize
A Russian billionaire and former physicist has awarded nine scientists prizes of $3 million (?1.9 million) each for their work in fundamental physics.
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Inside Higher Ed: Results are in: Harkin releases critical report on for-profits
By Paul Fain for Inside Higher Ed
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Independent HE commission makes call for evidence
The Institute for Public Policy Research has put out a call for evidence for its Commission on the Future of 糖心Vlog in England.
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Honours for those who make learning come alive
Outstanding lecturers and learning-support staff within higher education have been recognised by the sector.
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Keep research away from prying FoIs, say MPs
A cross-party group of MPs has recommended a change in the law to prevent unpublished research data being released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Degree powers for Regent's College welcomed by Willetts
Regent's College has become the latest private institution to be granted degree-awarding powers, and it now aims to become only the second private university in the UK.
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News in brief
United StatesThoroughly revised - really?A US governor has signed legislation intended to lower the costs of textbooks for university students. Jerry Brown, governor of California, announced last...