Leicester staff to strike over job cuts plan
Union members’ walkout over budget cuts will coincide with the arrival of new students
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THE podcast: 15-minute briefing on UK HE policy
The results from a major higher education funding review, a potential overhaul of student visas, and a closer look at the university pensions scheme are all on the docket for autumn
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Ontario confirms policy tying university funding to free speech
Universities will have to develop and comply with free speech policy by January
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Plan S: a shock or a solution for academic publishing?
European funders’ shift away from subscription journals raises questions over the outlook for prestigious periodicals
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Why we must prevent barriers to cooperation in basic research
Erecting walls around university research labs will only leave us all worse off, writes Andrew Williamson
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English regulator plans shift to five-year access agreements
Office for Students says end of system of annual negotiations will allow universities to be more ‘ambitious’ and ‘flexible’
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Gender imbalance ‘widespread’ in Japanese medical schools
Institutions say they don’t doctor their admissions, but figures tell a different story
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Letters – 6 September 2018
Privatisation more sensible than mergers Nick Hillman’s view that “ Ministers are anything but relaxed about university closures ” (Opinion, 16 August) and Roger Brown’s response (“ Breakdown cover...
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Don’t be pound foolish over pensions
UK academics prize the USS pension. Sacrificing a scheme ‘in rude health’ on the basis of overcautious calculations would cause more disaffection
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The fragile generation and the coddling of young minds
Jonathan Haidt tells Matthew Reisz how a moral culture of ‘safetyism’ took root in today’s students, who view the use of any word that can cause offence as an act of violence
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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece, by Maria Michela Sassi
Elegant theories provide a new narrative about Presocratic philosophers, writes Emma Gee
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Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, by Christine M. Korsgaard
Kant is ‘animalised’ in this philosophical look at whether non-human animals are part of our larger community, says Paul Waldau
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Books interview: Robert Holland
The author on the journey from historical fiction and 18th-century Gothic Italian fiction in English to exploring how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination
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The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth, by Christopher Schaberg
Book of the week: Charlie Pullen on what it means to read and teach literature in an era when opinion trumps fact