Russell Group dominates UK’s graduate employment charts
Elite universities top newly-released tables for graduate employment rates, official data shows
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England ‘should learn’ from US troubles with performance funding
Paper highlights possible negative impact of performance-related funding and for-profit universities on widening participation
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THE World University Rankings 2018 coming soon: what you need to know
Phil Baty has the latest on the publication of the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which will be launched in London in September
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National Student Survey 2017: student activism has shown its power
The effectiveness of the NSS boycott means it is now time for universities to sit up and listen, says Sorana Vieru
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World’s best institutions for influencing inventions revealed
Nature Index examines how research articles are cited in third-party patents
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Career advice: how to run an international student exchange
Andrew Southgate and Rob Turner offer some tips on organising a study-abroad trip following a visit to a Japanese university
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Should the wealthy repay more of their student loans?
Australian legislation proposes to lower the country’s generous loan repayment threshold – but some argue that it should rise even higher, says Andrew Norton
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Mark Thompson, 1957-2017
Tributes paid to land law expert who became Leicester pro vice-chancellor
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Interview with Stephen Milner
The Italian scholar discusses how Machiavelli might have appraised current politics, the benefits of birdwatching and discovering Stevie Wonder
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‘We need to talk about your gross teaching quotient’
The subject-level teaching excellence framework could lead to a lot of stress for no great gains over the institution-level TEF, says Andrew McRae
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Publishing in fraudulent journals is criminal
Universities, funders, rankers and individual academics all need to act to stamp out predatory publishers, says Roger Watson
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Beall: ‘social justice warrior’ librarians ‘betraying’ academy
Creator of controversial predatory journals blacklist says some peers are failing to warn of dangers of disreputable publishers
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The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age, by Steven Weitzman
‘Archive fever’, the desire to know one’s lineage, is a focus of this judicious study, says Devorah Baum
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Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black, by Athena Athanasiou
Joanna Bourke on a powerful meditation on the politics of mourning focusing on the Women in Black of Belgrade
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Idol imaginings: academics reveal the childhood heroes who inspired their careers
Many an academic will be dragged to the cinema this summer by bored offspring determined to see the latest superhero film. But what kind of childhood heroes did scholars themselves have? Here, five...