Students ‘stranded’ in UK after university paused recruitment
About 180 students affected by turmoil at Richmond, the American University of London, with some having travelled to the UK before learning of problems
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Australian government accused of politicising grant announcements
Research grants that have languished in Australian politicians’ to-do trays are ‘spun’ as rapid government action
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Have ‘safe spaces’ limited art students’ licence to offend?
Matthew Reisz talks to Grayson Perry and an academic expert on performance art about the limits of student artistic expression in higher education
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Teaching-only contracts up again as REF approaches
Almost a third of staff in UK higher education are now classed as teaching-only
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Sunderland and SOAS cuts expose market dangers, say scholars
Academics claim that, as well as impoverishing some institutions, removal of number controls has led to overcrowding at other institutions
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Oxford start-up hub aims to help create 4,000 jobs
Research England throws weight behind new innovation project that promises to raise nearly £1 billion in private capital
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Queensland enlisted in search for coronavirus vaccine
Australian university joins race to control virus
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The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures, by Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath
Book of the week: Lincoln Allison is surprised by the amount of common ground he, as a traditionalist academic, now shares with the ‘innovatory managers’ he once quarrelled with
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Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933-1945, by Joanna Newman
Zoë Waxman is intrigued by a poignant but little-known strand of refugee history
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The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present, by Peter Gatrell
Christopher Hill considers the tangled history of migration into Europe and the complex lessons for today
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Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe, by Katharina N. Piechocki
Joad Raymond applauds a stimulating account of how mapping shaped our understanding of Europe and the world beyond
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Giannozzo Manetti: The Life of a Florentine Humanist, by David Marsh
Erin Maglaque enjoys a comprehensive new study of a central figure in Italian humanism
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WUR 3.0: how we could measure cross-disciplinary research
In the first of a series of blogs, Duncan Ross outlines how the next iteration of the World University Rankings methodology may judge research
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Degrees of influence
Mid-career learners, and some of the world’s biggest employers, are looking beyond the ‘graduate club’ for laser-targeted courses and skills
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Books interview: Karen Harvey
The cultural historian, whose latest book The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder explores the case of an 18th-century woman said to have given birth to rabbits, discusses libraries, women’s bodies and how...