Equality Challenge Unit ‘charter mark’ to tackle racial discrimination
Third initiative to foster fairer academy unveiled
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Lower fees won’t win votes, ex-minister tells Labour
Party needs better position on funding, says Bill Rammell
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Internet mentors could supplant traditional lecturers
Horizon Scanning study points to a ‘new kind of pedagogy’ in higher education by 2020
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Universities ‘must give more support’ to student start-ups
Academia ‘has a duty to nurture students’ fledgling businesses’, Royal Academy of Engineering panel hears
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Mergers boost efficiency, research suggests
Union a ‘positive activity’, says economics lecturer
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Helen Small discusses The Value of the Humanities
New book aims to promote calm in place of ‘grievance’
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Ministry of Information gets the historical treatment
Template for Orwell’s nightmare the subject of major AHRC-backed study
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Odds and quads - 26 September 2013
This guidance for university tutors is taken from a 1674 book, Firmianus and Dubitantius, which consists of “certain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisms...
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Quebec’s proposed ban on faith symbols provokes unease on campus
Academics and students register opposition to outlawing of overt displays of religious affiliation
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In deserted fields, danger
A career in research is not attractive to Germans, suggests a study conducted by the country’s Federal Statistical Office. A large proportion of graduates do not continue with research once they get...
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Grant winners - 26 September 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Marco BeatoInstitution: University College LondonValue: £196,355The tuning of motor circuits by recurrent excitation and inhibitionAward...
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Memes testing
In his enthusiastic review of Christianity and the University Experience: Understanding Student Faith by Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Sonya Sharma and Rob Warner (Books, 12 September), Gerald J....
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Measuring boom and bust
“Failure analysis” raises interesting points, but is rather simplistic in considering what failure is (From where I sit, 5 September). In the case of a bridge collapsing it is quite clear, but only...
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Flat rate
You report, in a mix of outrage and consternation, that about “£2,000 went on 880 bottles of sparkling wine” at the recent farewell party for the provost of University College London (The week in...