BBC helps produce First World War Moocs
Four UK universities are teaming up with the BBC to produce massive open online courses about the First World War
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THE podcast: 24-30 July 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe row over pensions, the number of universities charging £9,000 tuition fees, grant application success rates, and academics in comic books are all up for discussion in this...
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Government guilty of ‘abject failure’ over for-profits policy
Sir David Watson says ministers should have learned lessons of the past
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Super-scholar
Scholarly superheroes and campus life often feature in comics, but do they capture the real-life dramas of academia?
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Countdown to the Scottish referendum: ensure a global outlook is continued
Ferdinand von Prondzynski on the importance of the international nature of Scotland’s academy, no matter how the vote goes
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24 July 2014
KERPOW! - Academic superheroes: how’s that for impact?
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World in brief - 24 July 2014
United StatesAffirmative action gets court’s approvalA US appeals court has upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s use of affirmative action on race in admissions. Last year, the Supreme Court...
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Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Ivor Gaber, Barbara Graziosi, Constantine Sandis and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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News in brief - 24 July 2014
Student visasLords’ plea for rethink rebuffedThe chair of the Lords Science and Technology Committee has expressed disappointment that the government is unwilling to review its immigration policies....
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Grant winners - 24 July 2014
Action Medical ResearchResearch Training FellowshipAward winner: Shivani BaileyInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £197,895Germ cell cancers: protecting children from the side-effects of...
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Alan Rugman, 1945-2014
One of the 10 most-cited scholars in the field of international business, and an adviser to the Canadian government on trade, has died
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Q&A with David Roblin
We speak to the soon-to-be chief operating officer and director of translation of the Francis Crick Institute
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Appointments - 24 July 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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Help the medicine go down
Our Head of Zodiac Studies, Professor Mike Draco, has warmly welcomed the appointment of Greg Clark as the new minister for universities and science.Professor Draco told The Poppletonian that his...
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Closing the ‘town-gown’ gap
The new universities minister Greg Clark also has ‘cities’ in his remit, but cries of mission creep may be premature