TEF-REF ranking marks rise of 'new elite' in UK higher education
Lancaster University's vice-chancellor Mark E. Smith and Nicola Owen argue that a new composite ranking offers a more nuanced view of institutional excellence
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Students happy to fund research, but not other departments
Survey of more than 5,000 students fuels debate about cross-subsidies in English higher education
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‘Little appetite’ for overseas collaboration fund post-Brexit
Creating a separate pot of money for international research ‘risks funding second-rate’ work, conference hears
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Nicholas Phillipson, 1937-2018
Tributes paid to expert on the Scottish Enlightenment
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Interview with Bertha Ochieng
The De Montfort University professor discusses growing up as one of nine children, her work to improve the diets of children in the UK, and how academia turned out not to be a nine-to-five job
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Career advice: how to job-share in academia
Sophie Inge speaks to two sets of job-sharers about the pros and cons of dividing an academic role
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Vice-chancellors ‘must come clean’ over grace-and-favour homes
University and College Union calls for regulator to close loophole that allows institutions to omit details of housing perks from annual statements
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‘New elite’ emerges as UK ranking combines TEF and REF
Architects of merged league table say results show how old hierarchies are outdated, but pre-92 institutions still dominate
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Demand for 300K new university places ‘threatens uncapped system’
Hepi report warns that surge in youth population and higher participation will add to government’s funding headache in England
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A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War, by Patricia Fara
More heroic hidden figures are saluted in a timely study reflecting on equality today, says June Purvis
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Transgender Children and Young People: Born In Your Own Body, edited by Heather Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore
The messages of this edited collection are bold but are the contributors the silenced minority, asks Rachel Pain