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Is your university Twitter profile perfect?

Things to say, and things to not say, in a campus biography

Dutch universities dig in for long fight over open access

Institutions ‘unbending’ on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume

Universities must not become part of the security apparatus

The counter-terrorism bill will co-opt academics into the ‘securocrat’ and chill debate on campus - it must be fought, says Martin Hall

Multidisciplinary departments: do they work?

Tim Hall describes staff and student experiences of interdisciplinary mergers, including an awkward departmental ‘speed date’

Interview: Terry Eagleton

The literary theorist talks about his 50-year career, the importance of low-minded virtues and the double act of Christianity and communism

8 January 2015

Multi-faulty? - The good, the bad and the ugly of multidisciplinary, do-it-all departments

News in brief - 8 January 2015

Teacher trainingScotland funds 250 extra placesFunding to increase teacher training places at Scottish universities by more than 8 per cent has been announced by the Holyrood government. The...

Stefan Baral, Sir David Bell, Kathryn Ecclestone, Roger Morgan and Uwe Schütte...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

World in brief - 8 January 2015

Source: GettyMacedoniaFrustrated young scholars are fed upAnger over low pay, cronyism and excessive workloads may lead to an “exodus” of academics from Macedonia, a study claims. Some 65 per cent of...

US higher education: more options than McDonald’s menu

Students searching for the perfect university must value the diversity on offer and be aware of the complexity it brings, says Alan Ruby

Grant winners - 8 January 2015

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Simon BeltInstitution: Plymouth UniversityValue: £173,049Quantification of sea-ice carbon within Arctic ecosystemsAward winner: Hugh R. A...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 8 January 2015

Seats of learning

Graffiti. That’s what’s missing from John Sutherland’s examination of campus lavatorial facilities (“At your convenience”, Features, 18/25 December).“A woman without a man is like a fish without a...

Editorial expectations

To paraphrase Churchill, “The peer review system is the worst system there is…apart from all the others” (“Slighted by the gatekeepers”, News, 18/25 December).Journal editors need skin as thick as...

Faith, hope and charity

In Norman Bonney’s letter “Sever support for Kirk” (18/25 December), he proposes that the privileging of Church of Scotland candidates training for ministry in the Scottish universities should end....