Ludwik Finkelstein, 1929-2011
Ludwik Finkelstein survived exile in Siberia at an early age to become one of the longest-serving members of staff at City University London and a noted engineer.Professor Finkelstein was born in...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Coventry UniversityAcademy al frescoA sustainable ?32 million student services building has been opened, featuring natural ventilation and solar water heating. Coventry University officially opened...
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Odds and quads
This collection of 29 horses' teeth was assembled by Louis Auzoux (1797-1880), a French doctor who made models of humans, animals and plants for use in teaching medicine and anatomy.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste - Ticket to glide
Circling hilltop castles and seeking out thermals, occasionally shadowed by a sociable buzzard - Paul Nurse attests to the joys of taking to the skies on the slenderest of wings
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The week in higher education
? Any concern that higher education is a low priority for the UK's coalition government will surely be banished by a new advertising campaign that counts universities alongside all things that make...
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Leader: Take your money elsewhere
So the UK tells foreign students with its visa regime. Australia once did too, but it has changed its tune to hang on to a rich trade
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From where I sit - Twists and turns on road to reform
When the South University of Science and Technology of China decided to break the rules last year and recruit 45 students without having permission to do so - and without requiring them to take the...
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Appointments
University of British ColumbiaSarah OttoWhen Sarah Otto, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of British Columbia, received an email telling her that she had won a "genius grant...
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Research intelligence - There's a lot more to it than that
Advocates say 'enriched content' represents the future of the scholarly article. Andy Wright reports
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Expelliarmus debitum!
Harry Potter a metaphor for higher education? Kevin Fong explains - almost
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29 September 2011
A necessary intervention - How to revive UK life sciences
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Date set for strike at Middlesex
Two unions are set for strike action at Middlesex University over job cuts that some claim could reduce the workforce by 15 per cent.
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‘What about the common good?’ Chaplains respond to White Paper
Forty university chaplains have signed a letter criticising the coalition government’s White Paper for seeing higher education in “highly individual” terms.