The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has just published a position paper on the question what universities are for. The LERU is a group of twenty European research universities (see the list; membership is by invitation only) that together seek to influence policy in Europe.
Their paper takes a strong stand against the new discourse [...]

The Times Higher Education reports on the British Academy’s worries that policy makers underestimate the value of the humanities and social sciences. In a recent report, “Punching Our Weight: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Public Policy Making,” a working group chaired by Sir Alan Wilson reported that policy makers do not make optimal use [...]

A recent article by Rebecca Atwood in the Times Higher Education reports that new research has found that young academics in the UK experience high levels of anxiety over their ability to “perform.” Louise Archer, the reader in education policy studies who conducted the research, concludes that young academics worry about the pressure to publish [...]