UUK criticises ‘excessive prudence’ behind pension reforms
The USS is being attacked from all sides over the methodology of its valuation and assumptions, claims UCU
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Fewer students opt for vocational courses
The number of people taking undergraduate-level vocational qualifications is largely in decline, according to a report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
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University of Northampton refuses FoI request for minutes
University claims exemption from releasing details of board of governors meeting, citing ‘commercial interests’
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Rethink reliance on self-funded postgraduates
Plans to raise researcher numbers at risk if study is unaffordable, universities warned
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Language degrees: when the words are not enough
Seminar debates conflicting trends in the discipline as industry figures look beyond fluency
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Fight fixed-term work, research councils entreated
UCU argues that a rise in project-based grants fuel job insecurity and deter postgraduates from working in academia
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Campus close-up: University of Sheffield
Florey Institute for Host-Pathogen Interactions and Imagine: Imaging Life project combine forces to tackle deadly bacteria
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Chinese academia: temptation in a toxic system
The arrest of several academics has raised questions about the nation’s research culture, says Hong Bing
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From YouTube to e-books: novel ways to reach students
James Pickering, named 2014’s most innovative teacher at the ߣߣÊÓƵ Awards, discusses making content accessible. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Who loves universities, baby? Google+ users do
Opinions on campuses worldwide are just a click away
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THE podcast: trends in university campus design
Source: RexDownload the podcastIn this podcast, reporter Chris Parr discusses trends in university architecture with Paul Roberts, executive director and co-founder of Turnberry Consulting, and...
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Emma Butcher, Jon May, Roger Southall, Uwe Schütte and Auriol Stevens...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Electricity, directed by Bryn Higgins
Agyness Deyn unflinchingly portrays a woman’s experience of epilepsy in this unconventional fairy tale
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Cinema of the Dark Side: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship, by Shohini Chaudhuri
Film-makers are challenging mainstream media depictions of state terror, finds Linnie Blake
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The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory, and History, by Tara Martin López
Clare Griffiths on the things that were remembered and the things that were forgotten about the crisis