Grant winners - 11 September 2014
Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit AwardsAwards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancementAward winner: Carlos NuñezInstitution: Swansea UniversityDuality in string theory,...
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Sir David Bell, Sir David Eastwood, Graham Farmelo, Liz Gloyn and R. C. Richardson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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John Sperling, 1921-2014
An iconoclastic educator at the heart of the movement to create for-profit universities has died
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Q&A with Sarah Churchwell
We speak to the Man Booker prize judge and professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia
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World in brief - 11 September 2014
United StatesMobile phones: the ‘invisible addiction’Female students in the US spend an average of 10 hours a day on their mobile phone, while their male counterparts rack up nearly eight, a study at...
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News in brief - 11 September 2014
Horizon2020Oh, where are the humanities?There has been a “systematic failure” to integrate humanities into the societal challenges section of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme,...
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Salary Spartacus
I was surprised and delighted to see in your article “Bands of gold: salaries by academic rank” (News, 4 September) that, among the group of vice-chancellors and principals, there is at least one...
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No easy landing for jet set
It appears that freshers with a spare £25,000 can spend it “on a private jet to arrive at university” (The Week in Higher Education, 4 September). I assume that those landing at the University of...
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PhD positives
As a final-year PhD student at the University of Manchester I felt the need to respond to the rather negative portrayal of PhD study previously highlighted (“This far, and no further?”, Features, 14...
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The burden of caring
While the article “Home truths” (Features, 4 September), which explored the struggle to balance an academic career and parenthood, was interesting, a great many words have already been devoted to the...
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Primitive culture
The experience of Jason Haye (“UCS ‘unhealthy for a black student’: graduate”, News, 28 August) is an unusual one, linked to a one-off incident. But it also raises a serious issue about higher...
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The week in higher education - 11 September 2014
The University of Edinburgh has been warned to “think carefully” about its relationship with a “shadowy” social club, the Edinburgh News reported on 4 September. Edinburgh is already under fire after...
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Majority of research funding goes to minority of institutions
71 per cent went to 31 universities because of ‘narrowed’ definitions of excellence, claims report