Wellcome and Royal Society team up for biomedicine
The merging of two prestigious fellowship schemes could set a new global standard in support of early-career independent researchers, it has been suggested.
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We're not dead, just 'evolving'
University of Wales declares that reports of its demise are premature. David Matthews reports
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Let's be mature about this - perhaps study is not for us
Initial Ucas data indicate big drop in applications from those aged 19 and over. Jack Grove writes
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Universities face extra costs in pension funding
The sector's main pension fund is likely to be judged as having a ?2.9 billion deficit, potentially requiring an injection of funds from universities and damaging the case for the University and...
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Sector: too many cooks will spoil regulatory broth
Plans to involve three bodies in resolving student complaints are "a recipe for confusion", the government has been told.
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All better now? Actually Hefce, we feel much worse
Effort to mitigate AAB and core-and-margin effects spells trouble for post-92s. Simon Baker reports
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Northern Irish may need higher grades to study close to home
Differential offers are a legitimate means to 'control market', Ulster v-c says. David Matthews writes
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Scientists welcome new hand at STFC controls
The new head of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has "an understanding of academic research, which his predecessor sadly lacked", a senior academic has said.
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Leave them a beaver (no Lama)
When in China, don't mention Tibet but do wash well, firm's code advises. David Matthews reports
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Community of scholars: lifelong learning needs lifetime readers' tickets
Offering library access to alumni and independent researchers helps to keep a university at the heart of its community, says Susan Gibbons
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Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
We're all in this together or we won't be in it at all: Jules Pretty on a call to arms for the planet's future
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Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist
The life of a polymath with 'piercing sagacity' is delightfully rendered, finds Tim Birkhead
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Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain
If society is a metaphorical building and income levels determine which floor people get to live on, then who inhabits the basement, who lives in the penthouse, who lives in between, and how much...
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What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present
Joanna Bourke begins What it Means to be Human with a curious letter from "An Earnest Englishwoman" to The Times in 1872, enquiring whether women might be classified as animals. It transpired that...
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Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
A skewed comparison of opera's heavyweights results in a bloodless spectacle, notes Mark Berry