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THE podcast: higher education in Palestine

Download the podcastFahoum Shalabi, assistant deputy minister for higher education in the Palestinian National Authority, and Karim Tahboub, professor in the department of mechanical engineering at...

Big data research to get £70 million boost

David Willetts is set to unveil £72.6 million of new funding to help academics unlock the potential of “big data”.

Academic assessment gone mad

Has accountability to stakeholders got out of hand? Steven Ward imagines an Orwellian world of over-assessment

A first-person history of mental illness

Historian Barbara Taylor’s account of the asylum system is woven into a memoir of breakdown and recovery aided by a ‘safe haven’, analysis and friendship

Scottish ministers do the Highland mud-sling over UK split

Alistair Carmichael hits back at Michael Russell’s claims of xenophobia in Westminster

Caltech: secrets of the world’s number one university

How does a tiny institution create such outsized impact?

6 February 2014

Superstars - The story behind the world’s number one university

World in brief - 6 February 2014

AustraliaTax measure ‘threatens’ fundingA body of leading Australian universities has criticised the government’s “kneejerk, short-sighted” attempt to recoup more than a billion dollars in research...

THE Scholarly Web - 6 February 2014

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Q&A with Martha J. Kanter

We speak to the distinguished visiting professor of higher education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Brian Trevor Griffiths, 1930-2014

A pioneer of practical training for interpreters in Britain has died

News in brief - 6 February 2014

EPSRCMeet the new chiefThe pro vice-chancellor for research and enterprise at the University of Southampton has been named the new chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 6 February 2014

Too much freedom?

I know how frustrating “An FoI officer’s lot” (30 January) can be. But a freedom of information request to universities to find out how many FoI requests they had received is hardly demanding,...

Young Turks revisited

Jack Grove’s excellent feature “Out of control” (5 December) rightly highlighted the role of Turkish students and scholars in the large anti-government demonstrations last year that centred on the...