Vote of no confidence in Northampton vice-chancellor
UCU passes motion as government guarantees £230 million public bond to fund Waterside campus
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Interview: Mark Turrell
From election monitoring to military tips, Matthew Reisz meets the man who uses systems thinking as a force for good
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It's time to rebuild Brand Britain
Sonal Minocha recalls her own experience as an international student and argues that post-study work visas must be brought back
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Fifty years of free speech at Berkeley
Massimo Mazzotti on the legacy of the 1964 movement
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Will universities’ bullying boomerang?
Legal scholars say threats to sue individual academics over industrial action may expose institutions to greater liability
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20 November 2014
Novel take - John Sutherland, Sarah Churchwell and others on fiction that captures truths about the sector
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Sir David Bell, E. Stina Lyon, June Purvis, Sharon Wheeler and Richard Whittle...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Carol Lancaster, 1942-2014
A leading figure in American foreign policy and a long-term dean at Georgetown University, who was described by Hillary Clinton as “a true champion for human development and women’s progress”, has...
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Q&A with Paul Boyle
We speak to the new vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester and former chief executive of the ESRC
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A significant step towards a mature Scottish model of higher education
Ferdinand von Prondzynski welcomes planned legislation that addresses key university governance issues
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World in brief - 20 November 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesOverseas student numbers on the riseThe number of international students starting courses at US universities has increased by 7.5 per cent in the space of a year. Some 0,128...
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Grant winners - 20 November 2014
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilTechnology ProgrammeAward winner: Mark PlumbleyInstitution: Queen Mary University of LondonValue: £77,443Audio data exploration: new insights and...
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News in brief - 20 November 2014
European CommissionChief scientist role scrappedScientists and science bodies have reacted with dismay to the decision by the European Commission to axe the post of chief scientific adviser. The role...
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Librarians are just the job
As I sit in the Medical Library of the University of Cambridge pondering the outbreak of the Ebola virus, a librarian is giving skills training to two postgraduates, one postgrad is writing a paper...
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Revisionist view of closure
As someone who has studied the field of international relations, Steve Smith will be well acquainted with the idea of regimes trying to rewrite history for their own purpose. So it is that since 2005...