Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy
Experts predict 'unsustainable' USS fund will close within 10 years. Jack Grove reports
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Institution denies taking tougher line on academics who 'under-perform'
Union claims Birmingham introduced new regime without consultation. Paul Jump writes
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Median holds the message
Aspiring journalists must learn to ask probing questions of digital data as well as people, recommends Louise Byrne
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The 'gold standard' of Grayling is not struck from an Oxbridge mint
New College of the Humanities' pedagogic model has only a passing resemblance to the ancient universities' teaching, argues Julia Horn
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The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
Richard Overy discusses the roads to hell that were paved with utopian intentions
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Eve Escapes
Shahidha Bari is touched and troubled by a daughter's efforts to articulate her mother's decline
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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles
Hollywood and Los Angeles, you might well think, were made for each other. As early as 1915, with the film industry barely out of its infancy and orange groves still covering most of the rural...
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Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
For readers familiar with Japanese fashion, the eye-catching cover of Yuniya Kawamura's book may signal a link between this work and photographer Shoichi Aoki's long-running FRUiTS project. FRUiTS'...
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The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome
Lucy Wooding admires the balance of a tome that puts pre-Reformation England's religion on trial
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Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman
In the study of popular culture, academicians have recently been bringing material from abstract disciplines, such as philosophy, to bear on it. What should we make of this seemingly odd pairing? A...
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The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq
In the years after the Second World War, academic centres focused specifically on the study of conflict began to lead the scholarly agenda in that field. King's College London's Department of War...
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Curiosity knows no bounds
Policymakers focusing on science's utility have consigned the humanities to a supporting role, but scholars in each of the 'two cultures' understand that they share a love of discovery and capacity...
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Another fine mess
Caught between posturing government ministries and kicked about like the proverbial political football, London Metropolitan University may have reached the point where it is no longer match fit,...
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'He cites me, hard, forcing my footnotes apart...'
The Fifty Shades phenomenon has spawned academic debate, scholarly parodies and now an erotic trilogy starring a dark, brooding, sensual...lecturer. Matthew Reisz reveals all
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'Spend, spend, spend' - marketing head's advice
"Someone is waking up and smelling the coffee!" That was the reaction of our Head of Marketing, Graham Flair, to the forecast by Tim McIntyre-Bhatty, deputy vice-chancellor of Bournemouth University...