Mooc students ‘passive’, study suggests
Research finds Harvard course cohort had high hopes, but avoided collaboration and failed to use new skills at work
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Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions, by Gerd Gigerenzer
A good grasp of basic statistics will help us to make the right life choices, finds Omar Malik
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Higher education needs more fundraisers
Failure to recruit may lead to lowering of promotional bar
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Why animal researchers are ending their silence
Extremists silenced institutions and scientists for years, but researchers are now willing to speak up for good practice and valuable results
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Try DIY, not green or gold open access
Sector-endorsed routes aid publishers, not scholars, say journal editors Harvey Goldstein and John Bynner
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The importance of play
Recreational deprivation has been linked to criminality, obesity and declining creativity. Rob Parr asks why having fun is not taken more seriously
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Dismay as Brazil recalls Science Without Borders fellows
Students in second-choice destinations obliged to return home for failing to reach entry requirements
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
Philip Roscoe extols a mischievous economics blockbuster brimming with ideas and predictions
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The hippocampus in the room
In what she describes as “a major breakthrough”, our Head of Neuroscience, Dr E. G. Loeb, has discovered empirical proof of the recent contention by Professor Thomas Harrison in Times Higher...
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Grant winners - 1 May 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch grantsAward winner: Colin TaylorInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £450,901Functional properties of a mobile organelle...
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Wilfred Owen, by Guy Cuthbertson
Gary Day on a new biography that breathes some life into the war poet
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For-profit university’s first accounts reveal 'Premier League'-sized debt
University of Law also has a new Guernsey-based parent firm
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The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, by Nancy J. Troy
Tracey Warr finds comedy and tragedy in the posthumous dissemination of an artist’s work
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Low PhD stipends are recruitment ‘time bomb’
Doctoral training centres report rise in overseas applicants as graduate salaries lure UK talent
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Universities must convert widening access into graduate jobs
Call for institutions to measure social mobility impact via graduates’ careers