Five myths about Moocs
Diana Laurillard explains why a model based on unsupervised learning is not the answer
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New play pokes fun at university life
Familiar scenarios may have academics rolling, or reeling, in the aisles
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Show your cards: academic players on poker’s draw
Serious academic players on what they’ve learned from life at the table
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University of London considers outsourcing careers service
Institution investigates commercial options to generate surplus
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MLA conference: blizzard of ice and ideas
Frigid weather fails to dampen enthusiasm at the MLA conference, finds Robert Eaglestone
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Digital age of opportunity for the monograph
Hefce launches review of digital publishing in the arts and humanities
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Don’t beat about, use moral appeals to stop plagiarism
Tutors focus on penalties but students respond on ethical level, study finds
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Q&A with Peter Lutzeier
We speak to the vice-chancellor of Newman University and chair of The Cathedrals Group
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Review: The Duchess of Malfi
Physical aspects of a new theatre both add to and detract from a convincingly chilling tale of sororicide, attests Liz Schafer
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Title restraint
I do not share Richard M. S. Wilson’s enthusiasm for standardisation of terminology across all UK universities (“Title scramble”, Letters, 9 January). But if we are to be so blessed, perhaps a good...
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16 January 2014
Thought leaders - The subjects students have favoured and forsaken over 15 years
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THE Scholarly Web - 16 January 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Boris Magasanik, 1919-2013
A pioneer in the field of bacterial gene regulation who forged the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a leader in biological research has died
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Grant winners - 16 January 2014
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Constantinos PapageorgakisInstitution: Queen Mary University of LondonValue: £440,397Using Yang-Mills theory to understand objects with five...
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World in brief - 16 January 2014
United StatesCourt stymies NYU expansionA leading US university has seen half of its building expansion plans unexpectedly blocked in court. A state judge announced last week that New York University...