USS strike: we need an honest debate about pension ‘facts’
Pension cuts have been presented as a matter-of-fact and inevitable response to an enormous deficit, but this position has started to unravel, says Jan Machielsen
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UK university dropout rate rises for third year in a row
Hesa data show 6.4 per cent of young undergraduates did not progress into second year in 2015-16
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Arthur Moss, 1931-2018
Tributes paid to pioneering cardiac researcher
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Career advice: how to transition from PhD student to senior lecturer
Publish before your viva, distinguish opportunities from time-drains and have a strong online profile, says Helen Coleman
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Interview with Elizabeth Kiss
The next warden of Rhodes House on growing up in a family of political refugees and why universities must prepare graduates to be good citizens
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Female leadership moves backwards in world’s top universities
Analysis of THE World University Rankings data shows number of women leading highest-ranking institutions has waned
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Academics asked to check visas of international visitors
Concern about scholars being ‘put in a position of proxy border guards’
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Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction, by Mari Lending
Models and casts helped transmit knowledge of building, design and art, says James Stevens Curl
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Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies, by Jason R. Rudy
Elleke Boehmer on a refreshing argument that verse allowed its makers and readers in the empire to adjust to new settings while maintaining ties with Britain
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Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion, by Jörg Rüpke
Candida Moss lauds a volume that charts ‘lived religion’ from the Iron Age to late antiquity
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Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer, by Christopher S. Celenza
There is more to this ‘misunderstood’ man than just the romantic poetry for which he is best known, writes Hetta Howes
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Pensions strike ‘poisons relations’ on UK campuses
USS dispute has also revealed deep divides among vice-chancellors on way forward for the sector, experts say
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Mandatory PhD policies lead to boom in academics with doctorates
Latest Hesa data reveal big jump in staff with a doctorate, although numbers remain static at some institutions
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UCL apologises for media director’s campus meeting rant
Charles Hymas said meeting over new campus was ‘more akin to a Roman amphitheatre where any slave felt to be worshipping the God Mammon was going to be bayed down’
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The week in higher education – 8 March 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media