UK-style RAE taken on by Italy
The UK's much criticised research assessment exercise has been adopted by Italy as the model for a new national agency designed to evaluate academic work. The Agenzia Nazionale del sistema...
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The UK's unloved elite
Why should UK academics be public intellectuals? France, we are told, has lots of them. America, apparently, is also well stocked with well-paid thinkers. Britain remains curiously bereft. At first...
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Off stage, we synchronise chairs
Name: Kate Tuerena Age: 42 Job: Faculty administration manager, faculty of education at Anglia Ruskin University Education/ background: I trained as a stage manager and worked in theatre for 12 years...
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Top-flight teachers gain new acclaim
The 糖心Vlog Academy is preparing to put the finishing touches to a scheme designed to give champions of teaching and learning greater professional recognition. A committee is being assembled...
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Who got that job?
Angela Hull, professor of spatial planning, department of the built environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Job advertised The Times Higher, June 16, 2006 At the start of her lectures on urban...
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Early-career cash fillip
Rule changes mean new bioscience researchers will find it easier to set up their own labs, says Melanie Newman Early-career bioscience researchers and lecturers will find it easier to secure funding...
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The wonder of universal symmetry
The Comprehensible Cosmos
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Open up to make a capital return
The Next Great Globalisation
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We are, and will remain, what we eat
Food is Culture - Food in Early Modern England
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Rocket science no match for a washing appliance
The Shock of the Old
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a war-time story of political deception and personal loyalty: "Bernie had lain at the foot of the...
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Troubled island that gave us carefree prose
The Cambridge History of Irish Literature
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Wrinkle on twilight twinkle
The Invention of Evening
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Personal and political front line
Making Trouble
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Hark the Bard in all his bawdy beauty
Over time, much of Shakespeare's colourful language has been lost to the editor's pen. In the RSC's new edition of his works, Hélo?se Sénéchal and Jonathan Bate have rediscovered some of the original...