Turning university prestige into something students value
Matthew Hartley ponders how prestigious (and pricey) colleges can justify their course costs
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QAA set to retain key role in monitoring university standards
Agency is preferred bidder for four of six quality tenders offered by Hefce, alongside HEA and Leadership Foundation
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English universities to team up with councils to boost regions
Hefce-funded project aims to drive economic growth and increase employment
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THE interview podcast: Selina Busby
Why one academic takes her students to Dharavi, a large slum in Mumbai, to teach drama
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King’s College London fight for pay secrecy costs £250,000
Legal battle overturned landmark ruling that may have led to routine disclosure of senior staff salaries
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Walter Jackson Freeman III, 1927-2016
A neuroscientist and philosopher who offered many sharp insights into how our brains generate perceptions of the world has died
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Writing for scientists explained in new book
All scientists can improve their writing skills by realising that they need to sell as well as tell the story, says author of new guide
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Interview with Christina Murray
We talk about helping shape a country’s direction and the rise of managerialism in HE with the Bingham Centre’s new director
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Birmingham-Nottingham link creates £10m research centre
Five years from launch, partnership proves benefits of bigger scale, according to two v-cs
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Eurovision block voting: does anything similar occur in research?
Data on international collaborations hint at importance of place, politics and history
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New tool aims to boost universities' flagging green efforts
Scorecard could help institutions improve green credentials after damning report warned universities had fallen behind on carbon reduction targets
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White Paper: will TEF link to multiple fee caps be dropped?
Plans for 'failure regime' also on the agenda for higher education bill after Queen's Speech
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Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities, edited by Elvi Whittaker
Gendered dichotomies distort our perceptions of aloneness in the academy, writes Aniko Horvath
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Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement, by Rosemary Wakeman
A continent-hopping survey of garden cities mulls dreams, war and exclusion, says Richard J. Williams
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The Habsburg Empire: A New History, by Pieter M. Judson
A. W. Purdue on a bold and refreshing revisionist study