On the scrapheap
Lord Mandelson questions how the cost of scrapping tuition fees would be funded. “By spending less on health or housing?” he answers rhetorically (“Peter Mandelson: Brexit an ‘act of self-harm’ that...
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Grant winners – 29 September 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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When scandals hit science
The world judges in black and white and only strict adherence to principle can regain the public’s trust
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Interview with Benoît Peeters
We speak to Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters about the growing acceptance of graphic novels as a serious literary genre, the rich history of francophone comics and his favourite Tintin books
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Jim Port, 1948-2016
A management consultant whose many studies of the sector gained him an OBE in higher education has died
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Why are academic papers rejected by journals?
Academic journal editor-turned-lecturer Hilary Hamnett explains the most common reasons why papers are rejected
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Mature students 'do better with non-written assessment'
Academic attainment of disadvantaged students can be improved if they can decide how they are assessed, study claims
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How work and family life conflict in the modern university
Academic science still operates on assumptions that have failed to catch up with the realities of today’s family lives, argue scholars
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Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent, by Brooke Harrington
Richard Murphy is enthralled by an insider’s story of a secretive profession that intensifies inequality
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923, by Robert Gerwarth
A. W. Purdue on the suffering of populations of multi-ethnic empires in the years after the Great War
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Books interview: Susan Greenfield
The neuroscientist, broadcaster and author of A Day in the Life of the Brain holds forth on pony tales, Giuseppe di Lampedusa's Leopard, Thucydides and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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What are you reading? – 29 September 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Down, Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row, by Forrest Stuart
A fine ethnography reveals how poor Angelenos and the cops control each other, says Dick Hobbs