Bankruptcy should be a real option, argues think-tank

Policy Exchange's call to end 'no-fail culture' draws mixed response. Melanie Newman writes

Call for worthy recipient to take on professor's library legacy

The husband of an academic and broadcaster wants his late wife's legacy to live on by donating her extensive distance and lifelong learning library to a worthy higher education institution.Naomi...

Scottish pooling model could make UK splash

A model being trialled in Scotland for sharing research across disciplines and institutions could be adopted across the UK.Research pooling, in which different universities work together to improve...

Wage expectations are way off the mark

Students overestimate starting salaries by 10 per cent on average, study finds. John Gill reports

Liverpool John Moores faced 27 tribunal cases in past three years

Questions raised about 'distant' management and 'litigious culture'. Melanie Newman reports

Burden of oversight grows as committee membership drops

IUSS workload expands as average attendance at meetings falls to six MPs. Rebecca Attwood writes

Sleep expert's book cited in US torture defence

A top-secret US memorandum on the use of sleep deprivation against al-Qaeda suspects cites a book written by a British academic decades ago to justify the technique.Jim Horne, director of the Sleep...

Whistleblower kicked off board

An academic at loggerheads with Manchester Metropolitan University after he blew the whistle on alleged grade inflation at the institution has claimed that he was scapegoated by being kicked off its...

The plight of the honeybee

A joint funding package of £10 million has been granted to investigate pollinators' decline. Zoe Corbyn reports

Grant winners

NEWTON INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPSThis is the first round of Newton International Fellowships. Fellows have the chance to work at UK research institutions for two years. The scheme is a joint...

End our democratic deficit

Most governance models allow v-cs to ignore academic opinions and freedoms. This must change, says Sally Hunt

It can never be too early to ask students to start taking intellectual risks

Anthony Seldon and David James want universities to support a radical shift that puts learning at the heart of the curriculum

Daytime TV: Animal passions

Gary Day on the dark side of Georgian London, the fallout from those who go missing, and Narnia

Cartoon by Ham

‘Opt-out’ from the 48-hour working week: the latest developments

Workers have recently felt the benefit of changes to legislation governing “working time”. For example, from 6 April 2009 the statutory entitlement to holidays increased to 28 days (inclusive of bank...