Round-the-clock demands from students can take a toll on lecturers. With a THE survey highlighting rising expectations, Anna McKie asks where the line should be drawn between professional and private...
Book of the week: Rachel O’Neill on a study of how the manosphere cloaks anti-female rhetoric in ancient borrowings
Government claims universities are neglecting the regions, as relations continue to fracture
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Some grades increased at Teesside using standard formula in case that could be smoking gun on reasons for wider grade inflation
Tributes paid to pioneering authority on human-computer interaction
The UK’s first black female history professor on universities atoning for their pasts and believing in the goodness of others
Imperial and UCL secure far more grants by value as Oxford slips back
Rising value of grants suggests that winning funding is likely to remain highly competitive
Your university’s new learning analytics service has flagged that a student is disengaging – what now?
The UK’s Commons Education Committee has surveyed many issues, but its simple-minded approach is largely unhelpful, says Andrew McRae
If those researching topics disliked by politicians can’t make a living in universities, scholarship will be impoverished, says Mark Steven
Depositories of original sources were once bulging with academics, but few scholars seem to have time to visit them now, says Arnold Harvey