Open University staff call for vice-chancellor’s resignation
Union members call for removal of threat of hundreds of redundancies and ask for consultation on possible industrial action
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‘Terrorist’ students must be expelled, says Turkey’s president
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targets students who took part in an anti-war protest at an Istanbul university
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Plan to offer university-level education to Jamaican prisoners
Talks scheduled to advance expansion of the US Prison-to-College Pipeline project
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Professor suspended ‘for defaming Bangladeshi PM’s father’
Marketing professor accused of ‘distorting liberation war history’ and defaming ex-president in newspaper article
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Colombia hopes peace can attract postgraduates
Peace process gives new impetus to nation’s efforts to promote itself as academic destination
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Interview with David Docherty
The honorary fellow at the School of Advanced Study discusses business-university links, running marathons and his planned book about higher education
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Macron’s European university networks must be flexible and innovative
Rigid, top-down tie-ups will do nothing to foster quality or European identity, says Jan Palmowski
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Greater efficiency would help cover pensions liabilities
Universities should emulate the private sector in a positive way by eliminating costly duplication, says a worker in professional services
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Elite university intakes ‘as imbalanced as poor nations on income’
New Hepi paper that ranks universities on intake equality illustrates gulf between some Russell Group universities and others
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UKRI criticised for appointing all-white research council boards
Just five out of 57 appointed members are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds
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Clothes do not make the woman: what female academics wear is subject to constant scrutiny
Women and their clothing are scrutinised more closely because men are seen as the norm in academia. Emma Rees considers the codes at play in what is supposedly a radical space
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The Unmasking of English Dictionaries by R. M. W. Dixon
Lynda Mugglestone ponders what Dr Johnson might have made of an exposé of philologists’ limitations