Review: Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels, by Jocelyn Robson

Union warned over first-of-its-kind pro-Palestine strike ballot

UCU branch at risk of overstepping mandate, critics fear, as it defends student accused of misconduct during King’s College London protest

By Jack Grove

5 November

One-man band with instruments coloured gold, silver and bronze, and a drum on fire. To illustrate that the Teaching Excellence Framework may be trying to do too much and is at risk of self-combusting.

Is the TEF a solution that has finally found a problem?

The Teaching Excellence Framework’s reliance on existing outcomes and satisfaction data, as proxies for teaching quality, has always invited criticism. But with the OfS now proposing to use it to assess compliance with regulatory conditions, the TEF might have finally found its niche. Juliette Rowsell reports

By Juliette Rowsell

4 November

Sheffield Hallam apologises to China scholar over publication ban

Curtailment of Laura Murphy’s research into alleged forced labour practices in China raises further questions over foreign government interference on UK campuses

By Jack Grove

3 November

We need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy

Policymakers should take a broad view of the value of degree courses when building our future workforce, says Charlotte Hallahan

By Charlotte Hallahan

3 November

Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era, by Jocelyn Robson

Helen Bynum on what made a married woman committed to the cause walk away from it all

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