Books interview: Benjamin B. Cohen
The author of An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj on gods, villains and Bond, libertine Britons in colonial India, and capturing ephemeral events

The author of An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj on gods, villains and Bond, libertine Britons in colonial India, and capturing ephemeral events

Technological advances mean an ever evolving workplace. While no one can predict the future, HE investment in lifelong learning will surely help us adapt

Book of the week: Clare Brant enjoys a lively account of a turning point in British history

A significant minority of tenured faculty spend their lives undermining others when they could be working for progressive change, argues Douglas Dowland

Universities, already facing upheaval on several other fronts, fear imminent plans could make it far harder to recruit students

The new president of Boise State University discusses what the Victorians can teach us and how her dream of ‘staying in college for ever’ has come true

Tributes paid to long-serving political science professor

Fees are seen by some as a proxy for quality, so an increase might not be all that bad, says Hepi report

Office for Students’ judgement that for-profit college was ‘not financially viable’ raises questions of why Department for Education extended funding access last year

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

Lords committee says Augar panel ‘missed mark’ in not considering how reducing tuition fees could force universities to divert research income to teaching

Agreement with controversial Ramsay Centre follows divisive internal debate

Robert MacIntosh offers some tips on dealing with the deluge of student reference requests – and on how to get a decent one yourself

If universities don’t assert their expertise, demands from ministers and industry will become ever more misguided, says Dawn Freshwater