Academics label proposed Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill ‘censorship’
University leaders and lecturers fear for freedom of speech under proposed anti-extremism legislation
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Student vote could topple Nick Clegg in Sheffield Hallam
Hepi report predicts that the student vote could swing the advantage to Labour at the general election
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Exiting the academy: what professors did next
About 13 per cent of academics who left their higher education institution between 2011-12 and 2012-13 joined the private sector
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Where next for university governance?
After a period of turmoil at Plymouth University, an external review is pending, and the findings may have implications for the sector, writes John Morgan
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UCL and IoE merger: a marriage of like minds?
The union of two London universities is underpinned by a powerful vision, say their leaders Chris Husbands and Michael Arthur
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Mix and match approach muddles the results of the REF
Richard Black on data manipulation and the problems with multidisciplinary subpanels
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Thomas Docherty on academic freedom
Managerial fundamentalism has taken hold in universities, with scholars viewed as resources that must be controlled, argues the Warwick scholar
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No logic in job cuts metric
The redundancies currently taking place at the University of Warwick represent a revolution in the meaning and purpose of academic work.Senior staff in departments that are deemed loss-making (the...
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore
Giulia Miller writes on the weird backstory to a female superhero, from women’s suffrage to lie detectors
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Berkeley’s Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us?, by John Campbell and Quassim Cassam
Jane O’Grady on a debate between two philosophers, who offer elegant ‘solutions’
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The Meaning of Human Existence, by Edward O. Wilson
The folksy charm of these essays threatens to detract from the main argument, says Simon Underdown
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Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International, by Frances Stracey
Alex Danchev considers a history of a small but influential group of cultural ‘hijackers’
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Little Vast Rooms of Undoing: Exploring Identity and Embodiment through Public Toilet Spaces, by Dara Blumenthal
An examination of our bathroom habits is a little…constipated, finds Peter J. Smith
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Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age, by Robert Pogue Harrison
Fred Inglis salutes a big-hearted exploration of society’s obsession with youthfulness
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4 December 2014
Weathering the storm - What does turmoil at Plymouth mean for the future of university governance?