Reach for the stars
The REF is coming and many institutions are looking to poach premier league researchers to boost their scores (and income) before it is too late. Elizabeth Gibney takes a look at the recruitment ‘...
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Off Piste - The sea, the sea
A childhood spent near the coast sparked Frances Ashcroft’s lifelong passion for biology. It also meant she caught the sailing bug early on, and she has been captivated - and frequently capsized -...
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Proportion of academics with PhDs, 2012
Analysis of doctorates prompts concerns over adequacy of scholars’ training, reports Jack Grove
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MPs urge Nerc not to press ahead with BAS merger
The Natural Environment Research Council should suspend its controversial plans to merge the British Antarctic Survey with the National Oceanography Centre, MPs have claimed.
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Academics on the hunt for spooky stories
Is your workplace built on an ancient burial ground, or is there a part of the stationery cupboard that has always been a degree or two colder than the rest of the building, sending chills up your...
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Cable admits AAB will save government money
Vince Cable, the business secretary, has admitted that the government will spend less on higher education as a result of this year's shortfall in student numbers, caused partly by the government's...
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Bath leaves 1994 Group
The University of Bath has left the 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities with its vice-chancellor saying continued membership of the organisation "does not reflect the type of...
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Cranfield v-c to take on BIS role
The vice-chancellor of Cranfield University, Sir John O'Reilly, will become director general of knowledge and innovation at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from early February next...
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Academics put to the test by Bamber
A panel of academics chaired by former University Challenge quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne faced a barrage of questions from the public ranging from "Why does it matter how it all began?" and "Does the...
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Surrey announces plans for new vet school
The first new vet school south of London is to be constructed around the theme that human and animal health is intrinsically linked.
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Russell Group members 'could lose £80 million' over student shortfall
Undergraduate numbers have dropped at around a third of the institutions in the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, its director general has said.
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The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania
How to establish a serious national tourist agenda when the most famous person associated with your country is not only someone you'd rather not be associated with but furthermore is fictional?...
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The Making of Modern Liberalism
A glance at this book's index is enough to confirm that Alan Ryan's approach to this vast subject is essentially philosophical. The reader seeking historical information, say, on the contribution to...
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Moscow 1937
Polly Jones praises an intentionally disorientating evocation of a capital gripped by state terror
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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
Vernon Bogdanor doffs his cap to a monument of objective, disinterested historical scholarship