Chris Longman on testing foreign students' English competency
Chris Longman argues for universities to hold mandatory pre-course English tests to ensure adequate competency of overseas students
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Shahidha Bari - As summer fades and term-time looms
Shahidha Bari muses on the restorative nature of the long summer break
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Letters
We will pay too high a price for independenceThe results of your survey show that a majority of Scottish academics will vote 鈥渘o鈥 in the referendum on 18 September and that an even larger proportion...
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Playing the audience
An implausible and ludicrous piece of hokum that steals its best ideas succeeds because of its vices, says Duncan Wu
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The week in higher education - 18 September 2014
The University of Nottingham鈥檚 vice-chancellor will look for answers after fire destroyed a 拢20 million chemistry laboratory. The GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry,...
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Launching high flyers takes cash
With falling numbers of home postgraduates, the issue of who should pay for this vital study, and how, is an urgent one
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Hard-core resisters of soft-core temptations
Resisting sexual temptation is one thing, forgoing sweets another. Natalie Gold on a study of restraint
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Fluidity of citizenship
Sarah Hackett on a timely study that merits a聽place at the heart of current policy debates
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Neoliberalism denounced
Democratic nations face bigger problems than their own triumphalism, says Vladimir Tismaneanu
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How informed do the public feel about science?
Almost two-thirds of the British public feel uninformed about science and research developments, data suggest
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Grand Piano, directed by Eugenio Mira
An implausible and ludicrous piece of hokum that steals its best ideas succeeds because of its vices, says Duncan Wu
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Peter Catterall, Patrick Doorly, A. W. Purdue, Peter J. Smith and Nicholas D. Thomson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Heather H枚pfl, 1948-2014
A leading expert on organisational theory and women in management has died
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Q&A with Martin Hairer
We speak to the Regius professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick and winner of the Fields Medal
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News in brief - 18 September 2014
Disabled Students鈥 AllowanceClark delays cuts until 2016The government has postponed controversial cuts to the Disabled Students鈥 Allowance until 2016-17. Greg Clark, the universities, science and...