Driven out, but Ukraine’s universities are not down
Institutions displaced by war in the country’s east have relocated campuses and adopted distance learning techniques to continue teaching. Hilary Lamb reports
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Going paperless: ORCID is the new CV
Tired of the lies and back-patting that CVs are made of, Roger Watson eyes an alternative with a long list of virtues
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Gender equality: universities are still all talk and too many trousers
Female academics’ feedback on issues such as ‘acceptable’ norms reveals a sector far from its ideals, say Laurie Cohen and Jo Duberley
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Danish drugs giant invests in new UK university research centre
Novo Nordisk to invest £115 million in University of Oxford centre despite Brexit
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‘Market movements’ could change nature of English universities
Dramatic student number shifts revealed by Ucas figures come as uncertainty looms on multiple fronts
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The week in higher education – 2 February 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 2 February 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners – 2 February 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Still working on a positive attitude
Has scholarly pessimism helped fuel anti-expert rhetoric? Panglossian we are not, but when hope fails, there’s humour, says Shahidha Bari
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TEF ahead: universities give way
On 26 January, the University of Warwick, like other English universities, put in its teaching excellence framework submission. It was with mixed feelings – mixed because, although we agree with the...
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To bury Caesar
Steve Fuller argues in his feature “Et tu, academe?” (26 January) the case for “academic Caesars”, leaders who can make the radical decisions necessary to ensure that universities can survive...
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Honest mistakes
One thing that the feature on confessing research mistakes (“To err is human; to admit it, trying” (26 January)) does not get into is journals’ review processes. A journal stakes its reputation on...
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On-the-job-trials
Re “Theresa May to seek new ‘credible alternative’ to universities” (23 January, www.timeshighereducation.com). The new technical courses look suitably redesigned and the reformed apprenticeships...