Instant regret
Clean energy from coffee grounds sounds wonderful (“Week in higher education”, News, 10 September), but soaking the grounds in sodium hydroxide (made by electrolysis, very energy-intensive) and then...
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We’ve been here before
Jo Johnson’s debut UUK speech offered variations on a Willettsian theme, but with a few chords to make his audience shift uneasily
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Hitting the buffers
Post-crisis, UK academics’ pay stays flat
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Keeping Stoke-on-Trent at the heart of ceramics
University shows its new ‘fusion’ collection at this year’s Ceramics Biennial
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Interview with Chris Naunton
We talk to the director of the Egypt Exploration Society about mummies, whether university is right for everyone and his one-time ambition to play guitar for Radiohead
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MRC chief John Savill: ‘illusion’ that research council mergers will save money
Sir John makes robust defence of current set-up as he warns sector not to be ‘complacent’ about councils’ future
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Wikipedian in residence ‘improves public access to science’
But individuals are still much more likely to trust NHS sources of information on cancer
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NSS results unrelated to teaching quality, study claims
Research by University of Oxford academics provides evidence that student satisfaction scores are unconnected to exam performance
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Improving universities’ tech transfer ‘is not about cold-calling’
Fledgling company reaches out to the US sector to help broker university and industry collaboration
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, by Pedro Domingos
In tomorrow’s world, all knowledge may be derived from data by a single process, finds John Gilbey
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The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary, by Ann Snitow
Emma Rees lauds an essay collection that highlights the American scholar’s game-changing writing
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, by Ian Kershaw
Robert Gellately on a study that puts Germany at the heart of the narrative