Maryam Mirzakhani: the right woman at the right time

After almost 80 years, a woman has won the Fields Medal. Caroline Series on female mathematicians coming of age

Celebrity masterminds: Laurie Taylor and Sally Feldman on fame

Sociologist’s and media scholar’s work on TV interview series furnished raw material for a study of the limelight and those in it

Pumping iron with the female bodybuilders

Tanya Bunsell’s immersion in the world of weightlifting yielded insights into steroid use and ‘muscle worship’

Subject: Leadership Conference

University of Dundee PFI scheme deemed ‘unsustainable’

Institution looks for new business model to pay for halls of residence

Polish academics return from Silicon Valley ‘willing to take risks’

Elite scholars are visiting the universities of Stanford and Berkeley in a mission to boost the country’s standing in a European innovation index

Five applicants for every place on postgraduate scholarship scheme

1,700 students apply for 350 places on biggest programme ever run in the UK

Let the right one in: hiring academic staff

Recruitment processes at UK universities need an overhaul if we are to hire the best people, argues Thomas Harrison

Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War, by Elisabeth Shipton

Niamh Gallagher on the women who challenged the consensus of who could serve at the front

Campus ‘slackers’ kicked into gear

Lecturer finds a way to make the ‘social loafers’ in class pull their weight in group assignments

Demand for STEM subjects holds up in wake of fees hike

But Hefce sounds alarm over the slump in foreign language students

University of Leeds lectures legal scholar over ‘political’ tweets

Experts question ‘draconian’ social media policies after university rebukes academic questioning Theresa May’s policies

How not to run student loans

Scams, defaults, over-optimistic revenue projections: the UK must look to US lessons on student finance, writes Nick Hillman

UCL accused of shirking moral duty to workers at Qatar campus

Union claims it has evidence of forced labour and exploitation at the Education City complex in Doha

HEA’s International Scholarship awards axed

£140,000 2014 programme scrapped because of ‘significant budget cuts’