Correction to Hesa figures

I represent the department of anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and I write to correct the published scores for my department in your subject rankings of research intensity (“The race is...

To know the difference

John Shand’s review of my book Global Philosophy: What Philosophy Ought to Be (Books, 8 January) grotesquely misrepresents what the book is about.He says I hold that “the theoretical problems of...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 22 January 2015

PGCE retains status after coalition split

Recommendation in report on teacher training appeared to downgrade the value of postgraduate qualifications

New Scottish education secretary sets out priorities

Angela Constance urges universities to take the lead on access as she decries principals’ pay rises and confirms talks on post-study work visa

Merger is ‘bad news for universities’, say librarians

Journal prices could rise further if Springer-Macmillan deal goes ahead, some fear

Ronnie Fraser settles ‘anti-Semitism’ case costs row

Lecturer agrees an out-of-court settlement after the UCU sought to reclaim its legal costs

Cary Nelson: ‘Ignorance’ fuels calls for Israel boycott

Former AAUP head and others aim to sway ‘non-fanatical’ supporters of sanctions with The Case against Academic Boycotts of Israel

Tower of power grows as a pillar of Glasgow’s community

Local residents won’t be forgotten amid expansion to boost student experience and strategic research areas, says Anton Muscatelli

First shelf filled in Murty Classical Library of India

Professor’s dream as a student is realised as library launches first five volumes in bilingual series

Can an open-air lab tempt you to Siberia?

Russia’s Tomsk State University is banking on the region’s natural assets and an English language push to attract foreign students and scholars

Check your reflexes on UK’s first private medical school

Kevin Fong examines his responses to £35,000 a year degree

Forty years of a Kraftwerk revolution

Uwe Schütte on the German band whose electronic beats and futuristic visions are still relevant today

Peter Paul Catterall, George McKay, Claire O’Mahony, Lyla Quinn and Stephen Senn...

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Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life, by Jie Li

Jonathan Mirsky on one family’s memories of life in a Shanghai alleyway, from Mao to the modern day