The secret lives of child labourers of the Himalayas
For 15 months, social geographer Jane Dyson lived in a mountain village with young Indian workers, bonding over ‘mountain ice cream’
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Parlez-vous Anglais?
Foreign flavours enrich the English tongue, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The lines on free speech are becoming blurred
Compilers of a league table say fear of offending students has gone too far
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Best University Workplace Survey: unease at inadequate language skills
31 per cent of scholars think international students’ English skills are not up to scratch
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Sir Mark Walport debunks ‘myth’ that he is pushing research agenda
Chief scientific adviser is ‘amused’ by funding conspiracy theories but dismisses them as ‘complete invention’
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BIS may be abolished under Tories
Writing may be on the wall for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, according to policy thinktanks
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Must we sell our souls to make a bigger impact?
Efforts to trumpet the value of social science can misrepresent important controversies and subtleties, says Martyn Hammersley
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The call of duty met, not surpassed
As an ex-academic who is now self-employed, I was struck by the fact that what you describe as “academic citizenship” is in fact merely “professional citizenship” (“Good works”, Features, 29 January...
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Susan Bassnett, Clare Debenham, Richard Howells, Sandra Leaton Gray and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Robert Berner, 1935-2015
The “Picasso of low-temperature geochemistry” has died
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Q&A with Jo Rycroft-Malone
We speak to one of the most highly cited global researchers about her move to become director of the health services and delivery programme at the NIHR
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Everyday successes are important, too
Academics’ tendency to feel they have not ‘done enough’ needs to be tempered by an appreciation of colleagues’ achievements
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A little explanation goes a long way
A professor giving students one-on-one help to understand their subject raises questions about the nature of university teaching, says Brian Bloch
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News in brief - 5 February 2015
University fundingHigher education, lower efficiencyFewer than four out of 10 MPs think UK universities use their funding efficiently, according to a poll. A survey of 150 parliamentarians, carried...
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World in brief - 5 February 2015
GuyanaSit-in seeks a better bottom lineStaff at the University of Guyana staged a sit-in to protest against their pay and conditions. Most academic and support staff arrived at work on 26 January but...