Warwick’s Thomas Docherty could face £50,000 legal bill
The professor who was cleared of charges of undermining authority faces substantial costs after hiring barristers for tribunal
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Spending on subscriptions to journals rises by up to 50%
Freedom of Information requests reveal substantial hikes in university outlay despite open access push
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Warning of a ‘winter of discontent’ over university pensions
Institutions told that UCU members are prepared to ‘dig in’ on pensions reform ahead of November marking boycott at 69 campuses
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Perfectly imperfect: university interviews
Shahidha Bari on the flawed, yet fascinating, admissions process
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Mr. Turner, directed by Mike Leigh
Philip Kemp on a cinematic portrait of an artist that does justice to the man and his work
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Peter Paul Catterall, Laurence Coupe, Timothy Darvill, Paul Greatrix and Nigel Rodenhurst...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap, by Carrie James
Tara Brabazon on a short but valuable study confronting digital dilemmas
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Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters, by Martin J. S. Rudwick
Alison Stokes on a compelling exploration of our understanding of the planet’s past
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The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty, by Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
A mashup of physics and culture illuminates the science of the very small, says Robert Lambourne
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Straights: Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture, by James Joseph Dean
Emma Rees on a survey of present-day attitudes to homosexuality which gauges current levels of homophobia
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Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece, by Takis S. Pappas
Spyros Sofos on a detailed examination of Greece’s political and economic crisis
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All For Nothing: Hamlet’s Negativity, by Andrew Cutrofello
Christopher Belshaw on a work that ponders nihilism, procrastination and non-existence
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‘Campus at sea’ vows to weather financial storms
US non-profit Institute for Shipboard Education hopes to plot safe course through rough financial waters
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Hopes rise for ‘something big’ on postgraduate funding
A thinktank has released modelling based on a popular proposal for a state-backed loan scheme
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EU’s national systems need more alignment, conference told
Discussion focuses on how European universities can move beyond the Bologna Process and compete at a global level