The week in higher education - 29 January 2015
When cuts to academic pensions were first announced, many predicted a “winter of discontent” featuring strikes, marking boycotts and campus protests. But it seems the battle against reforms to the...
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The extras that make a difference
Enrichment of university life by academics’ ancillary activities is threatened as the workforce is pushed towards casualisation
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St Patrick’s College students top private loans bill
Students at college are accessing nearly £96m of SLC funding
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Who got what class of degree
Part-time students are much less likely to secure an upper second-class degree than their full-time peers, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency reveal
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Philanthropy will flourish despite £9,000 fees, say sector heads
Alumni expected to become lifelong investors in higher education, UUK and CASE Europe conference hears
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Cambridge academics find history in their own home
Apartment block may have had large role in the early Cambridge University Press
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Space race makes University of the West of England’s campus fit to face the future
An estate master plan will help the institution equip students for the 21st century, v-c Steve West says
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TED winner shows what children can learn with their heads in the cloud
Newcastle scholar Sugata Mitra’s $1 million prize helps fund self-organised learning environments worldwide
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Disaster City: where a catastrophe is a good day’s work
Emergency services from around the world come to train at the small village with a unique connection to Texas A&M
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Today’s undergraduates: born into a second life
A rift will always separate digital natives from others, Shahidha Bari believes
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Inherent Vice, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
The work of Thomas Pynchon makes its Hollywood debut in a nostalgia noir tale faithfully adapted by a kindred spirit
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Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and Liberal Education in the Digital Age, by Thomas Leitch
Research tools have been revolutionised by the internet but, asks John Gilbey, are they reliable?
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Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie Gottschalk
Angelia Wilson on a prison system that has eroded democratic institutions and exacerbated social injustices
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Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain, by Lisa Mckenzie
Vicky Duckworth on an authoritative and personal study of the people living on the St Ann’s estate in Nottingham
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Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain, by Robert Hewison
Andrew Blake on a study of politics and the arts in the New Labour era