‘Sage on the stage’ era of university lecturing ‘is over’
Business school expert says lecturers’ role is to help students manage information rather than pass on knowledge
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Thabo Mbeki questions South Africa’s free higher education policy
Former president warns that scrapping fees will lead to high dropout rates and challenges of capacity
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Union threatens 14 more days of strike action in pensions dispute
Further walkouts would target exam period between April and June
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UK cannot be net beneficiary from research post-Brexit, say MEPs
Disappointment after European Parliament, which must ratify Brexit deal, strikes tougher than hoped for line against the UK
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USS strike: we need an honest debate about pension ‘facts’
Pension cuts have been presented as a matter-of-fact and inevitable response to an enormous deficit, but this position has started to unravel, says Jan Machielsen
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UK university dropout rate rises for third year in a row
Hesa data show 6.4 per cent of young undergraduates did not progress into second year in 2015-16
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Female leadership moves backwards in world’s top universities
Analysis of THE World University Rankings data shows number of women leading highest-ranking institutions has waned
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Academics asked to check visas of international visitors
Concern about scholars being ‘put in a position of proxy border guards’
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Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction, by Mari Lending
Models and casts helped transmit knowledge of building, design and art, says James Stevens Curl
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Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies, by Jason R. Rudy
Elleke Boehmer on a refreshing argument that verse allowed its makers and readers in the empire to adjust to new settings while maintaining ties with Britain
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Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion, by Jörg Rüpke
Candida Moss lauds a volume that charts ‘lived religion’ from the Iron Age to late antiquity
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Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer, by Christopher S. Celenza
There is more to this ‘misunderstood’ man than just the romantic poetry for which he is best known, writes Hetta Howes
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Pensions strike ‘poisons relations’ on UK campuses
USS dispute has also revealed deep divides among vice-chancellors on way forward for the sector, experts say
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Mandatory PhD policies lead to boom in academics with doctorates
Latest Hesa data reveal big jump in staff with a doctorate, although numbers remain static at some institutions
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UCL apologises for media director’s campus meeting rant
Charles Hymas said meeting over new campus was ‘more akin to a Roman amphitheatre where any slave felt to be worshipping the God Mammon was going to be bayed down’