Crossing the Line: verbatim play probes tension at top of universities
Premiere of work based on 16 frank interviews with vice-chancellors and the chair of governors
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Shore up the foundations of world-class science, v-c urges
University of Leicester head tells ARMA conference that the start of research careers and early work needs support
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Athena SWAN set to spread wings and head Down Under
As the gender equality charter mark prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it looks to partner with a local agency in Australia
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Student grants may become loans as BIS prepares to wield the axe
A former adviser to Vince Cable expects maintenance grants to disappear and a lower loan repayment threshold as department tackles £450m cut
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Long-distance relationships: challenges faced by internationalisation staff
Improving partnerships with overseas universities is seen as the biggest challenge facing internationalisation staff in European universities, according to research
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FutureLearn looks beyond the 1% to offerings of post-92s
UK Mooc platform adds new partners after admitting that using global rankings as a proxy for quality ‘hides a lot of detail’
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Grant income targets set at one in six universities, THE poll suggests
FoI request reveals which institutions have targets of some sort after the suicide last year of a professor at Imperial College London
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Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination, by Ken Plummer
A sexology for our age examines a global and multifaceted part of humanity, says Sally R. Munt
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What are you reading? - 11 June 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour, by David Spiegelhalter
Danny Dorling gets to grips with in-your-face, full-frontal calculations of carnality
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Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame, by H. J. Jackson
Why do some literary works enjoy long afterlives, while other disappear from the ‘canon’? Jane Darcy finds out
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Open Source Architecture, by Carlo Ratti with Matthew Claudel
This manifesto calls for a radical rethink of the relationship between producer and consumer of the built environment, writes Flora Samuel
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Birds and Frogs: Selected Papers, 1990-2014, by Freeman J. Dyson
A gifted scientific essayist’s anecdotes about faith, friends and physicists delight Graham Farmelo
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Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, by Anahid Nersessian
Uttara Natarajan on a moral, informative and entertaining study
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century, by Konrad H. Jarausch
Neil Gregor extols a timely and cogent investigation