George Orwell: English Rebel, by Robert Colls
Sheila Rowbotham on a great writer whose contrary aspects are impossible to sum up
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The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography, by Alan Jacobs
Willy Maley on one of the most important works in the English language
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Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70, by Polly Jones
Lara Cook on coping with the man of steel’s legacy
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Four Meditations on Happiness, by Michael Hampe
What makes us happy?, asks John Shand
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Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community, by Karen T. Litfin
Reconnecting to the land grounds us, says Steffen Böhm
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Serendipitous scholarship
Evidence is vital, but don’t reject intuition, Felipe Fernández-Armesto says
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USS’ largest investments in companies, 2013
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has more than £466 million invested in banking giant HSBC, according to data from the pension scheme’s latest financial report
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UCU announces three two-hour strikes
Three two-hour strikes aimed at disrupting teaching at UK universities have been announced
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UEA to close its London campus
The University of East Anglia is to cease offering degree courses at its London campus from September this year, it has been confirmed
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Researchers in UK snap up fifth of ERC ‘consolidator’ grants
UK-based researchers have claimed the lion’s share of the European Research Council’s new consolidator grants, announced today
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Willetts refuses to rule out cuts to WP funding
Student opportunity fund to be slashed in grant letter, says Million+
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Geoffrey Robertson to represent three of ‘Farthing Five’
Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC is to represent students suspended by the University of Sussex over an occupation at the institution
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PhD reform provokes debate
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Scottish fee questions raised by pro-union campaign
It is “hard to see” how an independent Scotland could legally continue to charge students from the rest of the UK tuition fees
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Graduate job vacancies on the rise
The UK’s biggest employers are set to take on more graduates this year, new figures suggest