Russia’s universities: rebuilding ‘collapsed stars’
Jack Grove reports from Moscow on bold plans to revive the country’s ailing higher education sector
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The rise of the medical humanities
Belinda Jack examines the growing field and considers the therapeutic effects of poetry
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Careers at risk after case studies ‘game playing’, REF study suggests
Submission patterns reveal how institutions responded to rules
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Clamour for clarity on the reach of chief scientific adviser
Academics seek to determine role of Sir Mark Walport after announcement of Nurse review of research councils
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Why a controversial undercover cop should keep his academic post
Calls to sack Robert Lambert would deprive us of academic expertise, argues Stefano Bonino
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‘People should be allowed to say things we don’t like’, says MP
Liberal Democrat Julian Huppert decries ‘illiberal’ campuses and ‘selfish’ calls by v-cs to raise tuition fees
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How to beat writer’s block
Learning to accept ‘good enough’ as a benchmark can help academics escape a writing rut. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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A carrot no more
Dorothy Bishop hits the mark on all the negative consequences of our short-sighted research culture (“The big grant money. The big papers. Are we missing anything?”, Opinion, 15 January). I...
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World in brief - 22 January 2015
United StatesSilicon Valley plugs into ed techEducation technology businesses received investment totalling $1.87 billion (£1.2 billion) from venture capital firms last year, up 55 per cent on 2013....
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Carl Degler, 1921-2014
A Pulitzer prizewinning American historian who made major contributions to the study of women, African Americans and the poor has died
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Comets, not cold figures of finance, will ignite debate on Europe
In the debate over EU membership universities need to remind us of the ideal value of transnational knowledge, says Anna Notaro
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News in brief - 22 January 2015
REF 2014Data go digitalThe 1,911 submissions made to the 2014 research excellence framework have been published on the REF website. The submissions, from 154 universities, include 191,150 research...
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Traumatic evidence scars American football and its fans
Is the tide about to turn on the college sport?, ask Daniel Goldberg and Robert Lee Maril
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The week in higher education - 22 January 2015
The Sunday Times quoted Liam Byrne, Labour’s shadow universities, science and skills minister, as saying that “the right long-term shift is to a graduate tax” on 18 January. But the newspaper said...
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UK can’t afford to fall behind
Countries worldwide are investing to get ahead in the global game of research. Not doing so will cost the UK dear