Coming Up Short: Working-class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty, by Jennifer M. Silva
Angelia Wilson hopes for a turn against therapy and towards political engagement in the US
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Top 10 Wellcome trust grant-funded institutions
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge each secured about a 25 per cent rise in grant funding from the Wellcome Trust last year, according to the organisation’s annual report
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Universities' growth factor has been understated
Tertiary education’s impact on national development is greater than previously thought, study finds
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Scientist’s dishonest reporting of work could sink those in her wake
Studies based on ‘misleading literature’ may have to be revised or retracted, claims Loughborough scientist
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them, by Joshua Greene
Is utilitarianism the best way to resolve disputes in the global village? Natalie Gold investigates
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Bournemouth managers under fire over pay rises
A union has attacked managers at Bournemouth University for receiving what it describes as a 30 per cent pay rise
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Labour MP calls for more polling stations in universities
More polling stations should be set up in universities to encourage students to vote, an MP has told the House of Commons.
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Inside Higher Ed: Israel boycott row intensifies
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Langlands said he argued 9k fees were ‘too high’
The former head of England’s funding council thought the government was setting fees “too high” at £9,000.
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Early university applications at lowest level for four years
The number of English students who had applied for university by mid-December is lower than in the last four years.
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Imperial College’s new president to be Alice Gast
Imperial College London has named Alice Gast as its next president.
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Antarctic scientists flown off ice-trapped vessel
Scientists stuck on a ship in Antarctica as part of a research project have finally seen an end to their 10-day ordeal
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THE podcast: 2 January 2014 issue review
Download the podcastVice-chancellors’ pay, the problems caused for scholars by the UK’s visa regime, and tactics for dealing with rowdy students are all up for discussion in the first Times Higher...
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Non-EU scholars struggling with the UK’s visa policy
Academics describe the complex, arbitrary bureaucracy, emotional turmoil and career limbo wrought by Britain’s policies
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2 January 2014
The outsiders - Non-EU scholars in the UK tell of life interrupted