Our ‘world-class’ status may be greatly exaggerated
Bahram Bekhradnia warns of the clear and present dangers facing the UK academy
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REF more burdensome than RAE, pro v-cs state
THE straw poll shows efforts to lighten load have backfired
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Pets in the academic workplace
Petting animals can help to overcome social barriers which can lead to improved learning for students, says Erin McKenna
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Pearson profits from private expansion
‘Uncontrolled’ growth in HNCs and HNDs may lead to university retrenchment
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Belinda Jack on cliché, the nemesis of thought
Academics must counter ‘verbicide’, which constrains expression, to foster new ideas and ways of seeing
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PR disaster
It is bad practice for university press officers to edit information about their institutions on Wikipedia (“WikiTweaks: PR staff wield the airbrush for warts and all removal”, 21 November): indeed,...
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US alternative to student loans polarises debate
Liberals and conservatives argue over merits of intergenerational Pay It Forward plan
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JANET set to feed data-hungry sector
Jisc’s super-fast network arrives ‘on time and on budget’
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An exciting contest
Felipe Fernández-Armesto judges a revealing after-dinner game
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Shakespeare by numbers: my quest to see every single play
Emma Rees is 34 down, four to go in a bid to see the Bard’s entire canon on stage
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David Eastwood, John Gilbey, Liz Gloyn, Roger Luckhurst and Judie Newman...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Dynamics of Disaster, by Susan W. Kieffer
Alison Stokes on natural catastrophes and the need to use collective wisdom to cope with them
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Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil, by Victoria Langland
Sarah Sarzynski on an analysis of student activism during Brazil’s military dictatorship
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Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City, by Bradley L. Garrett
Tim Hall takes a ride with the urban explorers obsessed with penetrating the half-built, derelict or hidden parts of our cities
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The Hamlet Doctrine, by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
Peter J. Smith on non-Lit Crit efforts to find the method in the Danish prince’s madness