UCU calls for work to contract over pensions
Academics are being asked by their union to work minimum hours in the first stage of fresh industrial action over pensions - potentially followed by strikes and a boycott of the research excellence...
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Private Contracts: 'EU rules no longer apply'
Willetts hails fewer limits to business links with universities at Tory conference. Simon Baker writes
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Higher living costs loom north of the border for students from rest of UK
Four-year courses at universities in Scotland will incur additional expense. David Matthews reports
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University of Wales' vetting won't halt ambition
The University of Wales' international business will continue to expand despite its decision to stop validating degrees unless they are "designed and fully controlled" by the institution.
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Vital signs of an unhealthy future for UK science
Short-term contracts and a lack of permanent openings risk causing long-term damage to UK academic science, a report prepared for David Willetts warns.
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Sarkozy's reforms herald French 'Ivy League'
New 'Sorbonne League' at heart of effort to create world-class elite. Jack Grove reports from Paris
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EPSRC fails to placate critics of its effort to 'shape' research capability
Funding council chief's no-show to defend policy 'beggared belief'. Paul Jump reports
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Many tales, but no idea which will have impact
Universities' efforts to collect impact case studies for the 2014 research excellence framework may be in full flow, but uncertainty and confusion still abound.
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In the virtual newsroom, scholars tell the rest of the story
Simon Baker gets the scoop on a website offering expert insight on breaking news direct to the public
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Metric perversion
The use of journal rankings and citations data throughout the REF would hamstring innovation, argues Hugh Willmott
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Voice of experience: we cannot afford to waste our untapped potential
We must protect widening-participation funding for the sake of the disadvantaged, disenfranchised and disillusioned, says Martin Bean
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Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
Even in the upper echelons of the Third Reich, one man's cruelty stood out, writes Richard J. Evans
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A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present
Despite laws and mores forbidding aggression, the appetite for bloodshed lingers, finds Joanna Bourke
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Mughal Architecture and Gardens
This lavish and beautiful volume, illustrated with colour photographs by Amit Pasricha, surveys one of the world's most sumptuous groups of buildings and gardens erected under the aegis of an...
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The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits
What do you get if you cross a philosophical look at jokes with a liberal thinker in favour of toleration? Answer: Emrys Westacott! Laugh? I almost did. That is until I got to the bit about posh...