Review: 12 Years a Slave
Catherine Clinton reflects on history’s intolerable cruelties
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US imports: vice-chancellors that cost half a million?
Is Imperial’s appointment of Alice Gast indicative of a changing market?
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Police turn to universities for help with their enquiries
College of Policing pushes research agenda with grants for joint projects
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Part-time press gangs
The hardcore group of academics who print books on subjects sidelined by mainstream publishers
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Syria’s conflict takes its toll on academy and academics alike
Exiled scholars speak of hopes for renewal and fears for lost generation
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9 January 2014
False fronts - Why some academics feel like frauds
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THE Scholarly Web - 9 January 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Joanna Newman
We speak to the new vice-principal (international) of King’s College London
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Mark Bickerton, 1963-2013
A passionate advocate of international education has died
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Grant winners - 9 January 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsHumanitiesAward winner: Paul BotleyInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £184,040Isaac Casaubon in England (1610-14): a critical edition of his...
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Between the lines
Alan Collins, in his appropriately positive review of Douwe Draaisma’s The Nostalgia Factory: Memory, Time and Ageing (Books, 12 December), notes that “Draaisma writes in a lively style”, but fails...
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News in brief - 9 January 2014
Undergraduate applicationsDecember tally lowest since 2010The number of English students applying by mid-December for undergraduate degree study in the UK is the lowest in five years. A total of 2,...
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Very unsatisfied with NSS
The National Student Survey is the very worst kind of PR scam ever to have afflicted higher education.It does not measure staff commitment to student success or display appreciation for the huge...
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UK is shutting itself off
Over the past year, we have repeatedly said that the UK government’s “brightest and the best” message has been badly received in India and has affected student recruitment. So it was gratifying to...