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AHRC and ESRC say changes do not mean narrower horizons

But scholars question motives behind restriction of project studentships

Zero-hours contracts rife in education

UCU research aims to find figure for academy alone

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 8 August 2013

When the digging stopped

Source: KobalArchaeologists do it deeper“A Eureka moment.” That was how our professor of archaeology, Mortimer Wheelbarrow, described the result of his latest dig at a site in the East Midlands area....

Odds and quads - 8 August 2013

This 400-year-old Bible is probably the most infamous of the rare religious books and manuscripts held in the University of Leicester’s Robjohns Collection

News in brief - 8 August 2013

����Vlog AcademyMarshall commands top jobThe deputy head of the ����Vlog Academy has taken over its helm. Stephanie Marshall, who was formerly deputy chief executive (research and...

Campus round-up - 8 August 2013

Source: Johan ReinhardGateway drugs to sacrificeChildren sacrificed by the Incas were sedated with alcohol and cocaine, archaeologists have confirmed. A team from the University of Bradford analysed...

THE Scholarly Web - 8 August 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Appointments - 8 August 2013

University of MelbourneKaren Day“All Australians abroad speak of ‘going home’: this is how it feels to me,” said Karen Day, who has been appointed dean of science at the University of Melbourne, her...

David Solomon, 1923-2013

“A legendary figure at UCLA” who proved a pioneer in geriatric medicine has died

Trouble next door

Owing to a common language and geographical proximity, but also because of low tuition fees and comparatively low entrance requirements, Austria’s universities are extremely popular with German...

Grant winners - 8 August 2013

Economic and Social Research CouncilTransformative Research Call: ‘Transforming’ Social ScienceMaximum limit of £250,000; will run for 18 months.Award winner: Laura CramInstitution: University of...

Students and scholars in tweet harmony

Sian Lawson on how to align expectations in the social media age

Sporting fanatics

US universities feel the white-line fever

Lucky for some

So, life has been good to those studying the humanities at the University of Oxford between 1960 and 1989, a survey shows (“Quids pro quo: see, the humanities pay”, News, 11 July). Now there’s a...