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Open access gains ground

Half of scientific papers published in 2011 can be accessed online for free, a new study has suggested. 

Data miners strike gold on copyright

In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes.

Russell Group warning on GCSEs

The Russell Group has warned that private school pupils are more likely than state school counterparts to choose science and languages subjects at GCSE, which could give them an advantage in...

ɫ��ֱ�� podcast: 22 August 2013 issue review

Download the podcastThe lack of female university vice-chancellors, Clearing 2013, and academics working late into the night and over weekends are all up for discussion in this week’s Times Higher...

Unplugged: my holiday from electronica

Camping and lecturing at a festival frees Kevin Fong from the digital prison

Prospect of gladiatorial fight puts women off push for top

Global project explores the paucity of female leaders in academia

‘Death threats’ in Thailand for UK whistleblower

Wyn Ellis, who made a plagiarism claim against an official, has received menacing calls

Russell Group earnings boost ‘statistically insignificant’

BIS study on graduate premium challenges research-intensive claims

Teaching with literature makes social sciences come alive

Students get deeper insights when writers and poets such as Dickens and Neruda are on the syllabus, David Aberbach argues

Off Piste – Drawing inspiration

Austin Williams on the possibilities and limitations of ‘taking a line for a walk’

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 22 August 2013

To the Departmental Secretary

Just keep talking

Space for reflection is an important issue in a noise-fixated society (“If silence is golden, we should invest in it during seminars”, Opinion, 8 August). However, I’m not sure that I concur with...

Painfully slow initiation

Far from ignoring the social divide apparent between our and our students’ use of social media and computers generally, many of us have been trying to explain this to enthusiastic innovators for...

Lamps go out over cosmos

Sarah Coakley’s project of talking up the role of cooperation and sacrifice in evolution is timely and has important implications beyond theology (“Giving but not yielding”, 8 August). But it would...