Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe, by Richard Ivan Jobs
Book of the week: Richard Larschan traces the steps of the young tourists who forged a borderless post-war identity

Book of the week: Richard Larschan traces the steps of the young tourists who forged a borderless post-war identity

Despite all that’s been done to improve doctoral study, horror stories keep coming. Here three students relate PhD nightmares while two academics advise on how to ensure a successful supervision

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Tories backed by just 7 per cent of UK university staff responding to survey

John Morgan looks at the ‘culture wars’ approach to universities emerging on the Right, and the counter-arguments

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Terrible tales attest that some see this activity as a nuisance or worse, rather than as something that can benefit supervisor as much as student, says John Gill
On 22 May, a collective of students, alumni, staff, past colleagues and political activists delivered two petitions to Falmouth University calling on it to abort its decision to scrap two of its most...
The plans in the Conservative Party’s manifesto to cut overseas student numbers smack of Theresa May cutting her nose off to spite her face (“Conservative manifesto: plan to cut overseas student...
When the teaching excellence framework was first mooted, I assumed that, like the Quality Assurance Agency teaching assessments with which I was associated in the early days, it would be by subject....
Liz Morrish suggests that academics “adopt a stance of concealed menace” towards their assessor to get through their annual performance and development review “unscathed” (Letters, 25 May)....

A student funding system in Ontario that brings together sources of financial help will be watched closely by other provinces seeking to increase access, says Glen Jones