Graduates and the gender pay gap
Women graduating from part-time degrees go on to earn £7,500 less on average than their male equivalents, according to new data on higher education leavers
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Overvaluations ‘stifle’ university spin-offs
Dame Ann Dowling warns that universities that put too high a price on their intellectual property may hamper a spin-off’s success
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Rejected work gets back in the line-up
Paper turned down for plagiarising surfaces in another of publisher’s journals
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University of Gloucestershire’s joint venture tie-up comes apart
Deal with for-profit firm INTO University Partnerships cancelled due to lack of ‘common ground’
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Strike action possible over LSE researcher pay
Unions tell university that a resolution is not possible in dispute over new career structures
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Emulate Plato and Steve Jobs, university educators hear
Apple director and Open University v-c tell Universia International Presidents’ Meeting 2014 in Brazil to think pedagogy, not technology
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Campus close-up: Bangor University
Welsh institution helps keep the maritime economy afloat as applications remain buoyant
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Amanda Leigh Cox, Steve Fuller, Peter J. Smith, Gary Thomas and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Bar-Ilan’s disturbing defence of one of its own
Why would a university stand by Mordechai Kedar after his abhorrent comments about rape as a terror deterrent? asks Neve Gordon
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Cardiff University unveils Collingwood Collection
Archive of Lake Distrtict dynasty also ‘invaluable’ for scholars studying John Ruskin and Arthur Ransome
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Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great, by Robert Garland
Barbara Graziosi ponders the different types who, over several centuries, criss-crossed the Mediterranean
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The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis, by Yiching Wu
Jonathan Mirsky on how Mao unwittingly helped to stir up and then crushed a longing for democracy and equality among millions of young people
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Feminism, Gender and Universities: Politics, Passion and Pedagogies, by Miriam E. David
A study of pioneering women collates stories that might otherwise be lost, writes Ruth Woodfield
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Shakespeare’s Possible Worlds, by Simon Palfrey
Peter J. Smith is left bewildered by an ambitious attempt to identify the units that make up Shakespeare’s plays
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Class Warfare: Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools, by Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone and Heather Jenkins
Social dynamics that affect elite US students are indicative of a broader trend, finds Julie J. Park