Tory manifesto could freeze English fees and target ‘low value HE’
Restrictions on loan access for university courses with low graduate earnings under consideration for Tory manifesto, though Augar-inspired cuts not ruled out

Restrictions on loan access for university courses with low graduate earnings under consideration for Tory manifesto, though Augar-inspired cuts not ruled out

Hugh Miall praises a bold new programme for putting an end to war

Nathan Abrams would have liked a wider range of examples in this study of how America’s most traumatic war was represented in the cinema

Book of the week: Mihir Desai wonders whether a wide-ranging account of the stories economists tell risks throwing out the baby with the bathwater

Political purity is a badge of honour in the hashtag age. But the real world is nuanced and messy, as universities should know better than most

Kalwant Bhopal finds that the brave progressive new world technology enthusiasts have promised us is just as tainted by racism as the familiar analogue world

Ellen T. Armour applauds a powerful account of the role photography played in the struggles over slavery

Lincoln Allison makes the case for the revival of the old-style academic eccentric

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

The apparent proliferation of libel challenges by scientists accused of research misconduct have led to fears that journals and others will be dissuaded from calling out wrongdoers. But is the...

Tributes paid to an expert on the theory and practice of democratic politics whose ‘intellectual brilliance’ was matched by a strong ‘sense of scholarly camaraderie’

Anti-corruption economist discusses his humble upbringing in Burundi, his five months in solitary confinement, and how his work is shaping global policy

Project hopes to better value research by allowing outside world to see how surprising research findings are to experts in field

Report also suggests that spin-outs founded and run by women receive less investment