Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains, by Susan Greenfield
A lack of disciplinary expertise in digital cultures undermines this study, finds Tara Brabazon
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Innovation investment unveiled
The Technology Strategy Board will commit more than £535 million to fund innovation in 2014-15
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‘Shock and derision’ as Kent Anderson named Science publisher
Open letter from researchers decries AAAS journal’s high fees and points to Anderson’s combative views on open access
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University participation rate fell back in 2012-13
Introduction of higher fees led to a bulge in numbers the year before, report says
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The wonder years: a journey to independence
Christopher Bigsby reflects on being a Fresher and the transition from the classroom to campus
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Vanishing points of view
Universities abandoned to untrammelled market forces risk being robbed of their diversity, with unpredictable results
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The systematisation of higher education in the US
Consolidation may bring greater efficiencies but the process is one yielding mixed blessings, writes Howard P. Segal
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Robbins Rebooted: a critique
Byrne wants to replace marketisation with corporatism, argues Emran Mian
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Boxing clever: television as a teaching tool
It’s time for lecturers to hand out viewing lists alongside reading lists, argues Chris Willmott
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State turns to Pearson for help placing for-profit outcasts
Thousands of students may be stranded as colleges lose student loan access
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Sheridan Le Fanu: 200 years of literary blood and terrorism
On the bicentenary of the Irish writer’s birth, Bill McCormack weighs his preoccupation with family, guilt, dualism and the disappeared
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UK students join Minerva Schools’ fledgling class
US for-profit start-up institution’s peripatetic, online-delivered degree draws undergraduates keen to try something different
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Overseas master’s student asks why she was allowed on to course
Postgraduate claims that her English was not up to scratch
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Russell Group rated best at cat-herding, says study
Research suggests some standard management techniques work on academics after all, and older institutions are most effective