Durham University rent covers bed, board and investment costs
Email reveals that a third of accommodation payments is spent on capital and borrowing expenditure
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Senior administrative staff salary details kept secret
Universities claim releasing information would harm commercial interests or breach staff privacy
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Is your university Twitter profile perfect?
Things to say, and things to not say, in a campus biography
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Dutch universities dig in for long fight over open access
Institutions 鈥榰nbending鈥 on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume
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Universities must not become part of the security apparatus
The counter-terrorism bill will co-opt academics into the 鈥榮ecurocrat鈥 and chill debate on campus - it must be fought, says Martin聽Hall
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Multidisciplinary departments: do they work?
Tim Hall describes staff and student experiences of interdisciplinary mergers, including an awkward departmental 鈥榮peed date鈥
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Interview: Terry Eagleton
The literary theorist talks about his 50-year career, the importance of low-minded virtues and the double act of Christianity and communism
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8 January 2015
Multi-faulty? - The good, the bad and the ugly of multidisciplinary, do-it-all departments
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News in brief - 8 January 2015
Teacher trainingScotland funds 250 extra placesFunding to increase teacher training places at Scottish universities by more than 8 per cent has been announced by the Holyrood government. The...
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Stefan Baral, Sir David Bell, Kathryn Ecclestone, Roger Morgan and Uwe Sch眉tte...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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World in brief - 8 January 2015
Source: GettyMacedoniaFrustrated young scholars are fed upAnger over low pay, cronyism and excessive workloads may lead to an 鈥渆xodus鈥 of academics from Macedonia, a study claims. Some 65 per cent of...
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US higher education: more options than McDonald鈥檚 menu
Students searching for the perfect university must value the diversity on offer and be aware of the complexity it brings, says Alan Ruby
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Grant winners - 8 January 2015
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Simon BeltInstitution: Plymouth UniversityValue: 拢173,049Quantification of sea-ice carbon within Arctic ecosystemsAward winner: Hugh R. A...
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Seats of learning
Graffiti. That鈥檚 what鈥檚 missing from John Sutherland鈥檚 examination of campus lavatorial facilities (鈥淎t your convenience鈥, Features, 18/25 December).鈥淎 woman without a man is like a fish without a...