‘Surge’ in European mergers as universities seek rankings boost
Desire to climb global tables is bringing many institutions together – but there are risks, expert warns
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Snobbery towards modern universities is unfair and outdated
Long-held beliefs about the UK’s hierarchy of institutions do not stand up to scrutiny, and hold back progress, argues Edward Peck
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Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century, by LaDale C. Winling
Flora Samuel on a study exploring the conflict that higher education institutions can cause in cities
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Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography, by Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Charlotte Jones is fascinated by an ‘experiment’ that ‘reconstructs the act of remembrance’ and brings its subjects back to life
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Books interview: Joan Taylor
The professor of Christian origins and Second Temple Judaism and author of ‘What Did Jesus Look Like?’ on puzzles, a chance encounter with ‘Jesus the Jew’ and 1st-century fashion
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Expansion of UK transnational education provision tails off
Number of those studying for degrees overseas grew by just 1 per cent in 2016-17, following years of strong growth
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Universities are pivotal for Sino-British relations
As Theresa May concludes her trade visit to China, Tim Bradshaw reflects on how research-intensive universities have paved the way for increased East-West trade
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French business school launches academy for camping sector
New training centre hopes to boost the economy of a leading holiday area
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Scotland confirms free tuition for EU students in 2019-20
Devolved administration’s move puts pressure on Westminster government to confirm post-Brexit arrangements in England
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Oxford universities both struggling on state school recruitment
Latest Hesa data show that University of Oxford again has lowest share of new students from state schools, but Oxford Brookes is furthest from its benchmark
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Interview with Leila Guerra
Imperial College Business School’s new associate dean discusses her Spanish heritage, the challenges of balancing work and family, and how business schools should practise what they preach
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Transatlantic Antifascisms: from the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War Two, by Michael Seidman
A study of divergent defiant forces omits the ‘hot and cold strangeness’ in loyalty, finds Fred Inglis
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Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine, by Alex de Waal
Why can’t we feed the world? Because food is a powerful weapon of war that we have done little to disable, says Tehila Sasson
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Mozart in Vienna: The Final Decade, by Simon P. Keefe
In composing, Mozart focused not on ideal form but on how a piece would play, hears Nicholas Till
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The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question, by Nick Hubble
Leo Mellor on a work that explores a group of writers for whom questions about time, selfhood and reality led not to introspection or aesthetic withdrawal but to a desire to change the world