Acts of Union and Disunion: What has Held the UK Together and What is Dividing it?, by Linda Colley
Violence, accident and luck have all made this young federal union, says Donald MacRaild
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Teaching we can do; learning’s out of our hands
What parents and schools fail to do in 18 years is unlikely to be accomplished in a couple of courses, says Alan Ryan
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The harmful idea of student ‘vulnerability’
A growing zeal to address ‘well-being’ diverts resources from those who really need help, says Kathryn Ecclestone
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The week in higher education
- Vice-chancellors in the UK often look enviously across the pond at the pay awarded to their US peers. But they might be less enamoured with the conditions foisted on Gwendolyn Boyd when she became...
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A peek at Australia's Petri dish
What can the UK learn from the uncapped student numbers 'experiment' that is already in full swing Down Under? Explosive" is the word used by one vice-chancellor to describe this week's figures...
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Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity, by Melissa Aronczyk
The ‘nation brand’ phenomenon is unsustainable, says Rula Al-Abdulrazak
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Damn lies and prospectuses
“You’re not suggesting that I deliberately colluded in a falsehood?”That was how Angela Topping, our Deputy Head of Prospectus Management, responded to the suggestion from reporter Keith Ponting (30...
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Stellacci ‘stripy nanoparticle’ dispute heats up
Analysis critical of professor’s discovery claim is published on arXiv
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Dating game: US undergraduates get lessons in love
Students assigned an old-fashioned date by Boston College lecturer
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Anglo-Indian ties have been ‘butchered’ by May
UEA head blames home secretary for UK’s first fall in international students
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A revolutionary mission statement: improve the world
Addressing global problems should be the academy’s raison d’être, argues Nicholas Maxwell
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UCU 'U-turn': some members say leaders are backing off showdown
Some members have branded the University and College Union’s decision to hold a series of two-hour strikes a “shameful” attempt to scale back industrial action over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer
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High and arbitrary fees
Charging high fees for the right to reproduce photographs of out-of-copyright artworks in academic publications is, as Robin Simon has written in the British Art Journal, a “loathsome practice” that...
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Student complaints about assessment grow as fee levels rise
Increasingly litigious students are consequence of consumerist nature of universities, says lawyer
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QAA seeks new quality development director
Agency head Anthony McClaran elaborates on what the role will entail. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments