Short and sweet, please
The Commons Science and Technology Select Committee appears to be fed up with getting long, unoriginal evidence - not to mention its ire that those submitting evidence steal the media spotlight by...
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STFRC and STFC: leagues apart?
Months were spent agonising about what to call the new Swindon-based organisation that will be created when the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and the Central Laboratory of the...
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Flash your credentials
Meanwhile, could another merger be on the cards? Glasgow Caledonian University is advertising for an executive director of finance. The advertisement informs applicants that "M&A exposure...
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A thank-you shard
University College London really knows how to treat its staff well. One academic nearing retirement, but still with offers for future contracts in hand, received a package full of broken glass and a...
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Feel the pulse of the inner city beat
John Hegley, with a little help from Steve, inspires streetwise students to put their thoughts into verse and to write about dogs and deckchairs Today I am booked to visit Southwark College in London...
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The law of averages produces poor results
Our honours classification system is an anachronism. It is an inadequate judge of ability and must go, says Mantz Yorke Why do 17 per cent of students of engineering and physical sciences obtain...
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Sing it - funding has just got funky
Fame inspires Kevin Fong to don his leg warmers and revitalise the academy. Get ready for your RAE star jump - it's time to break a sweat Fame costs and right here's where you start paying - in sweat...
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Today's news
Students killed in clash at a Beirut university Students for and against the government hurled rocks and furniture at each other today as Lebanon's power struggle turned violent on a university...
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Profits of being top of the table
Ranking Business Schools
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Driven by the desire to be disliked
The Life of Kingsley Amis
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Whydunnit case is closed but a real mystery remains
Agatha Christie
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A word from the wise to the not-so-wise
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
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An odd personality who never fails to split opinion
Utility and Democracy
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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 fictional work that draws on the author's childhood in Poland: "Take a man with a nice face and sad...
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An immoral structure that rent a land and its people
The Berlin Wall