Nigerian university united by Islamist terror
Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano says his institution grew stronger after a deadly 2012 attack
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Thinktank adds to pressure to take students out of net migration figures
Bright Blue campaign challenges coalition policy
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Love of learning is the new employability
Ensuring that skills are used at work will soon be a focus of future education debate, Pearson report argues
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Scholars explore impact of funding changes in Europe
Book examines the effects of ‘modernisation agenda’ on the Continent’s public universities in a time of austerity
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Former lecturer at Imperial College London wins compensation for unfair dismissal
But tribunal cuts scientist’s payout by 20 per cent to reflect ‘perverse’ attitude
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The Psychopath Whisperer: Inside the Minds of Those Without a Conscience, by Kent Kiehl
Luna Centifanti welcomes a disentanglement of popular confusions over brain and behaviour
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Has the student voice been tamed?
Universities’ zeal for student feedback centres on NSS surveys and best-practice audits; those expressing critical views are increasingly unwelcome
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8 May 2014
Sit up and be counted - Has the student voice been tamed?
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World in brief - 8 May 2014
FranceExchange workshopMeasures to help more students, staff and PhD candidates at French universities spend time abroad have been explored at a special workshop on the subject in Paris. The...
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Grant winners - 8 May 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Dmitriy RumyninInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £152,563Hecke algebras and Kac-Moody groups: representations, lattices and...
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Duncan Dallas, 1940-2014
A man who revolutionised public engagement with science has died
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Q&A with Dame Nicola Brewer
We speak to the new vice-provost (international) at University College London, a former High Commissioner to South Africa
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THE Scholarly Web - 8 May 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief - 8 May 2014
Teacher trainingGove announces reviewMichael Gove, the education secretary, has announced an independent review of the quality and effectiveness of initial teacher training courses. The review, which...
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Different corners
Robert Gellately’s review of Richard Evans’ Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Books, March) suggests that the author’s critique of the “what if” genre throws the baby out with the bathwater...