Teutonic tutors slide down ‘income pyramid’
Decline in German professors’ pay over a century
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Magnetic north plans to reset the cultural compass
Umeå University aims to gain from its host city’s Capital of Culture status
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Universities risk missing out on higher apprenticeships
Revamped schemes could bypass institutions unless they get aboard, sector warned
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From seed to blossom: policy efforts bear fruit
Jayne Mitchell seizes the chance to see her work at QAA in practice in a new role at East Midlands institution. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Untie the mavericks
Felipe Fernández-Armesto bristles at the stifling effect of peer review
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The Malcontent, by John Marston
By using ‘children’ in adult roles the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse both challenges the audience and returns to original practice
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Janet Beer, Nick Bevan, E. Stina Lyon, Tony Mann and Roger Numas...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre, by Jonathan Israel
Caroline Warman suggests that a complex period is oversimplified as the result of a forceful agenda
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The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature, by Anna Henchman
Advice from an astronomer would have benefited this exploration of connections between two subjects, says Virginia Trimble
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Bottom Russellers unite!
In an extraordinary intervention, one of our leading radical academics, Ted Odgers of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has leapt to the defence of those lesser members of the Russell...
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The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic, by Jonathan Rottenberg
Joanne Dickson on innovative mental health approaches to the understanding and treatment of a global problem
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Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology Since Darwin, by Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie
Claire Spottiswoode on the history of modern ornithology and how it has contributed to our understanding of evolution
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Germany rethinks after rush to adopt Bologna reforms
Problems with the introduction of EU harmonised three-year degrees have led to a reassessment
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Habib Kazdaghli: honoured by Scholars at Risk
Dean from Tunisia’s Manouba University given Courage to Think Award
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Interrogating sources
In the matter of Zygmunt Bauman “rebuts plagiarism accusations” (“Do not confuse pedantry with scholarship”, 3 April), I stand with the accused. In an age when academics are electronically connected...