Open access: Plan S launch delayed until 2021
Consultation responses had called for start of mandate to be pushed back from January 2020
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Offensive student evaluations 鈥榣eave academics in fear鈥
Universities need to give staff more support about how to deal with negative comments, say researchers
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French PhD students鈥 pay for teaching falls below minimum wage
Vacataire status means not only low pay, but six-month waits between wages, says the聽Confederation of Young Researchers
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Augar review: lower fees could come at a high cost
The risk is high that a聽future government will not replace lost fee funding with the investment universities need, says Bill Rammell
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Australian research 鈥榚xcellence鈥 may be mirage, says study
Leap in proportion of 鈥榓bove world standard鈥 research may reflect decline in average citation rates around the globe
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US university enrolment drops for eighth year
Declines heaviest among small colleges, men, and states of Florida and Illinois
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What are you reading? 鈥 30 May 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Break All the Borders, by Ariel Ahram
David Newman is unconvinced by claims that the Middle East is being reconfigured
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States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature, by David Simpson
Joanna Bourke has reservations about an attempt to track the changing meanings of terror
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature鈥檚 Deepest Secrets, by Graham Farmelo
Tony Mann assesses an argument about the role of mathematical beauty as a key to understanding how the universe works
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The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution, by Ian Newman
Peter J. Smith raises a glass to 鈥榗onviviality鈥櫬爄n life and literature
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This is Shakespeare, by Emma Smith
Lisa Hopkins applauds a 鈥榳oke鈥 look at the gaps in Shakespeare鈥檚 plays
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Augar review: reversing Cameron, Osborne and Browne鈥檚 鈥榩ast errors鈥
Post-18 review highlights the chaotic nature of Westminster policymaking, writes John Morgan
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A change may do you good
A different environment can do wonders for a person; might universities feel a similar refreshment when the UK鈥檚 political landscape settles down again?
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Letters 鈥 30 May 2019
Assessing the future of assessment The feature 鈥淭ime to get real鈥 asks if university assessment still passes muster and properly reflects real-world tasks (23 May). Many of us have been listening to...