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The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch, by Lewis Dartnell

What will we need to know to reboot civilisation after the apocalypse?, asks Alison Stokes

Sir David Watson: Russell Group is not all it’s cracked up to be

Senior scholar decries ‘divisive’ mission groups and government’s market focus

Let’s discuss the way we live now

Good communication is vital when dealing with allegations of harassment, says Luke Brunning

3 April 2014

Executive weighting - Are business-led boards to blame for tipping the scales on v-cs’ pay?

Sir Graham Hills, 1926-2014

A former principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, acclaimed for his efforts to widen access to higher education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, has died

THE Scholarly Web - 3 April 2014

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

News in brief - 3 April 2014

Undergraduate achievementDifferent classes’ different classesA new study indicates that state school pupils go on to get better degrees than private school peers with the same A-level grades. The...

World in brief - 3 April 2014

United StatesYale professor changes courseUS massive open online course provider Coursera has appointed former Yale University president Richard Levin its chief executive officer. Professor Levin, 66...

Grant winners - 3 April 2014

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Rowland KaoInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: £773,448Joint estimation of epidemiological and genetic...

The week in higher education - 3 April 2014

Labour is to slash maximum tuition fees to £6,000 a year and may reduce them to as little as £4,000, The Sunday Times reported on 30 March. Ed Miliband, the party’s leader, is expected to pledge to...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 3 April 2014

Inhale…and relax

Further to “Advice squad”, the feature about PhD supervision ( March). In 1988, when I still smoked, I had my PhD viva in the department of government at the University of Manchester. My supervisor,...

Vital facts pinned down

Ray Stoneham worries that a “seismic shift to online discourse” will leave academics, who are not on first-name terms with modern-day referencing, “in their ivory towers calculating the number of...

Unhappy resolution

I am a senior lecturer at a UK university who has been in post for more than 10 years. Until two years ago, I would have paid scant attention to the story “PhD scholarship appeal bid fails” (News,...

Reading problems

I think that Julian Elliott has not gone far enough in his criticisms of the dyslexia myth and industry (Letters, 20 March; “Is it time to rethink dyslexia?”, Opinion, 6 March). As a practising...