Vice-chancellors urge retention of right to appeal on visas
UUK lobbies Parliament over immigration bill concerns
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A yearning for spice
Claire Chambers relishes the exciting flavour of Pakistan at the Karachi Literature Festival
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World in brief - 6 March 2014
United StatesChina-US research role for RuddThe former Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has taken up a new role at a prestigious US university, leading a major research project into United...
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THE Scholarly Web - 6 March 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Ana Botín
We speak to the chief executive of Santander UK, who is the head of a scheme supporting the HE sector
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Noel Gale, 1931-2014
A leading physicist who switched mid-career to acclaimed collaborative work in archaeology has died
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Grant winners - 6 March 2014
Economic and Social Research CouncilAward winner: Andy FurlongInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: £67,750The making of the “precariat”: unemployment, underemployment and work-poor young adults...
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Part-time researchers on the rise
The number of part-time research-only contracts at UK universities has increased by 770 since 2009-10
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Fees ‘amnesty’ tops UUK’s pre-election wish list
Parties exhorted to prioritise research investment and internationalisation
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Redefining success may help women achieve potential
New book explores challenges female academics at Cambridge face on route to top
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Gallup launches graduate satisfaction survey in US
First-ever American poll to be carried out on the effect of higher education on happiness and success
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Poland: growth stalls in an academy overdue for reform
Solutions to demographic, quality and employability issues needed for a sector slow to adapt to globalisation
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The wheel deal?
I’m not sure what was more shocking about Kevin Fong’s article “Gear-shift mechanism” (13 February): that University College London apparently does not foster transferable skills in its...
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Best buy at Poppleton
Laurie Taylor’s Which?-style review of Professor Lapping (20 February) reprises his 1980s response to a call by Lord Joseph for an academic equivalent to Which?. At that time in Taylor’s column, the...
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It’s right to take a break
Rebecca Braun’s article about maternity leave for academics (“She knows, she tried”, Features, 23 January) gave a rather negative view of the experience and detracted from some of the progress that...