The importance of play
Recreational deprivation has been linked to criminality, obesity and declining creativity. Rob Parr asks why having fun is not taken more seriously
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Dismay as Brazil recalls Science Without Borders fellows
Students in second-choice destinations obliged to return home for failing to reach entry requirements
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
Philip Roscoe extols a mischievous economics blockbuster brimming with ideas and predictions
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The hippocampus in the room
In what she describes as “a major breakthrough”, our Head of Neuroscience, Dr E. G. Loeb, has discovered empirical proof of the recent contention by Professor Thomas Harrison in Times Higher...
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Grant winners - 1 May 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch grantsAward winner: Colin TaylorInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £450,901Functional properties of a mobile organelle...
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Wilfred Owen, by Guy Cuthbertson
Gary Day on a new biography that breathes some life into the war poet
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For-profit university’s first accounts reveal 'Premier League'-sized debt
University of Law also has a new Guernsey-based parent firm
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The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, by Nancy J. Troy
Tracey Warr finds comedy and tragedy in the posthumous dissemination of an artist’s work
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Low PhD stipends are recruitment ‘time bomb’
Doctoral training centres report rise in overseas applicants as graduate salaries lure UK talent
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Universities must convert widening access into graduate jobs
Call for institutions to measure social mobility impact via graduates’ careers
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1 May 2014
Worth the risks - Animal researchers end their silence on their work
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News in brief - 1 May 2014
Scottish independenceHepi/THE essay competitionWriters with strong opinions on what Scottish independence might mean for higher education are invited to enter the Higher Education Policy Institute/...
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World in brief - 1 May 2014
United StatesIndian applicants up by one-thirdApplications to US graduate schools from India have risen dramatically in the past year, according to a new report. The Council of Graduate Schools, in...
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Ernesto Laclau, 1935-2014
A leading Argentine political theorist and advocate of “radical democracy”, long based at the University of Essex, has died
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Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
We speak to the former Children’s Laureate and next chancellor of the University of Roehampton