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Are students learning partners or litigants with big sticks?

Consumer legislation will provide tools to ‘whack’ universities, Westminster Higher Education Forum hears

After the pay deal, UCU fights on

An assessment boycott has been dropped, but fair pay is still a long way off, says general secretary Sally Hunt

Research is now a global game

Which countries are steaming ahead in scientific output and power? Simon Marginson analyses the worldwide data

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by Alice Goffman

Dick Hobbs on how the intense nature of policing creates secondary casualties in poor communities

Beyond consumer-tourism in the Rainbow Nation

Robert Appelbaum reveals the highlight of his three-month sojourn in South Africa

Rob Potter, 1950-2014

A distinguished academic expert on urban geography and the geographies of development has died

15 May 2014

Front-line battles - The challenges of training key workers

Grant winners - 15 May 2014

Leverhulme TrustInternational Network GrantsSciencesAward winner: Istvan BallaiInstitution: University of SheffieldValue: £108,980Instabilities in partially ionised prominence plasmasAward winner:...

Q&A with Kate Auty

We speak to the new vice-chancellor’s fellow at the University of Melbourne, a former commissioner for environmental sustainability in Victoria

ɫ��ֱ�� Scholarly Web - 15 May 2014

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Sir David Bell, Hetta Elizabeth Howes, David Milne, Stephen Senn and Peter J. Smith...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

World in brief - 15 May 2014

United StatesJustices’ reaffirmative decisionThe US Supreme Court has upheld the right of states to prevent public higher education institutions from considering race in decisions about university...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 15 May 2014

News in brief - 15 May 2014

Women in scienceWait three years and we’ll seeThe government may “consider further action” on increasing the number of women in scientific careers “if significant progress is not observed over the...

Infestation fears grow

“It’s an architectural leap in the dark, but we can only hope that it does something to contain the problem and reduce any serious spillage.”This was how Jamie Targett, Poppleton’s Director of...