End of grants 'likely to force thousands more students to work'
About half of poorer students would have applied to university differently without a grant, Sodexo research also suggests

About half of poorer students would have applied to university differently without a grant, Sodexo research also suggests

Book of the week: With people vulnerable to bias, lack of diversity might be better tackled at organisational level, Victoria Bateman says

Simon Underdown on the novel notion that four walls were key to our development as a species

Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for the White House. Elizabeth Cobbs enjoys an entertaining look at her and her predecessors

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

A captivating study of Canadians’ national game skates over one element, says Andrew Robinson

Janet Sayers on an engaging work taking in Freud, Meynert and Penfield

Epistolary adventures from Lincoln to Louisa May Alcott, universities v courts, and hard times and hope in Stoke-on-Trent: must-read scholarly titles

Ellie Bothwell examines strengths and weaknesses in different higher education systems across the Continent

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Although many students praise aspects of their university experience, the majority are still unhappy about what they get in return for fees

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

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