Ucas data reveal inequality in university admissions
Students from most advantaged neighbourhoods 16 times more likely to win a place at the University of Cambridge than most disadvantaged peers
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THE podcast: 9-15 June 2016 issue review podcast
The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team
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Universities told to pay record compensation to students
OIA says recommended payouts topped £485,000 in 2015 despite reduction in the number of cases
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My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries, by Elizabeth Chin
Book of the week: Shahidha Bari on our attachment to consumption and whether we might ever somehow escape it
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Jo Johnson: new provider criticism like opposition to post-92s
Rebuffing claims that opening up sector will endanger its reputation, minister says ‘we have heard these concerns before’
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John Benyon, 1951-2016
A political scientist who made a major contribution to criminology and the study of public order has died
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Interview with Parvati Raghuram
We talk migration, being an academic outsider and Brexit with the RGS award winner
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How things have changed for female academics
Myra Strober’s rejection in 1970 for a tenure-track position inspired a lifetime of struggle against sexism
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Private college ‘took public money but failed on quality’
QAA finds lax entry standards at Cardiff college formerly led by principal with ‘falsified’ PhD
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
It is focused and deliberate practice that leads to expertise, not natural ability, says Philip Roscoe
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What are you reading? – 9 June 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen, by Aileen M. Kelly
Robin Feuer Miller on a 19th-century Russian who was part of a line of thinkers from Francis Bacon to Charles Darwin
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Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism, by Barnabas Calder
Annmarie Adams revels in the bunker mentality of an architectural enthusiast who sees the glory of grey
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The Dancing Bees and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language, by Tania Munz
Richard Joyner on the Austrian scientist Karl von Frisch, who discovered and deciphered bees’ communicative choreography