The lines on free speech are becoming blurred
Compilers of a league table say fear of offending students has gone too far
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5 February 2015
THE Best University Workplace 2015 - Results and analysis
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The call of duty met, not surpassed
As an ex-academic who is now self-employed, I was struck by the fact that what you describe as “academic citizenship” is in fact merely “professional citizenship” (“Good works”, Features, 29 January...
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Susan Bassnett, Clare Debenham, Richard Howells, Sandra Leaton Gray and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Robert Berner, 1935-2015
The “Picasso of low-temperature geochemistry” has died
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Q&A with Jo Rycroft-Malone
We speak to one of the most highly cited global researchers about her move to become director of the health services and delivery programme at the NIHR
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Everyday successes are important, too
Academics’ tendency to feel they have not ‘done enough’ needs to be tempered by an appreciation of colleagues’ achievements
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A little explanation goes a long way
A professor giving students one-on-one help to understand their subject raises questions about the nature of university teaching, says Brian Bloch
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News in brief - 5 February 2015
University fundingHigher education, lower efficiencyFewer than four out of 10 MPs think UK universities use their funding efficiently, according to a poll. A survey of 150 parliamentarians, carried...
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World in brief - 5 February 2015
GuyanaSit-in seeks a better bottom lineStaff at the University of Guyana staged a sit-in to protest against their pay and conditions. Most academic and support staff arrived at work on 26 January but...
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Grant winners - 5 February 2015
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilFellowshipsAward winner: Franciska de VriesInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £1,030,405The root to stability – the role of plant roots...
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Common as muck?
Source: GettyToo common for the SCR?According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, .1 per cent of all academic staff in the UK are now on teaching-only contracts.This figure was cited this week...
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The week in higher education - 5 February 2015
The government’s plan to curb extremist speakers on university campuses was facing mounting opposition as Times Higher Education went to press. In a letter to The Guardian, published on 3 February,...
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Duelling divas
In his review of Inherent Vice (“High fidelity”, Culture, 29 January), Philip Kemp writes that “film-makers have so far fought shy” of adapting Thomas Pynchon’s novels. At the risk of pedantry, this...