ULU president Michael Chessum arrested
The battle over plans to close the University of London Union has seen its president, Michael Chessum, arrested.
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THE podcast: 14 November 2013 issue review
Download the podcastResearch grant application success rates, the end of the 1994 Group and Feargal Sharkey’s opinions on the changing face of higher education are all discussed in this week’s issue...
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The Endtimes of Human Rights, by Stephen Hopgood
Conor Gearty on an impassioned attack on ‘imperialism disguised as moralism’
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Assets, liabilities and old age tensions
In “Pay it forward” (Letters, 7 November), Dennis Leech attacks my analysis of the financial health of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s largest pension scheme.The basis of his attack...
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Was 1994 Group’s demise triggered by relaunch delays?
Scrapped mission group was close to high-profile rebrand
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Q&A with Hanif Kureishi
We speak to the award-winning author and playwright, and professor at Kingston University. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Tom Palaima on the power of mentors
A mentor provides far more than inspiration and sage advice, says Tom Palaima, who fears for the future of such guiding relationships in the era of Moocs
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Beyond sushi: the attractions of lecturing in Japan
Susan K Burton looks back at her time teaching at Japanese universities and wonders why more Westerners don’t head east
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Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide between People and the Environment, by Kenneth Worthy
Laurence Coupe on a grand indictment of the ‘Western epistemological error’
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The PGCE is a teaching turn-off
If universities want to keep teacher training, their courses must be more relevant to the real school world, argues Susan Bassnett
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LSE urged to act over Peking critic’s expulsion
UCU protests over sacking of free speech champion
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Universities urged to spread word about staff and student threats
Victim of harassment calls for changes in light of jail term for Queen’s academic
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Sketchy information: illustration as a tool of understanding
Symposium considers drawing’s role in refining and communicating knowledge, from geology to surgery to unicorns
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Indonesia struggles to bridge its skills gap
Vocational courses are the latest focus of government investment
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Terminal rhetoric
“Universities, at the end of the day, are businesses.” (“Cap won’t fit for long: v-c predicts £20,000 UK fees”, News, 7 November.) How glibly that phrase issues from the lips of Nick Petford, vice-...