Self-publishing MA aims to bring authors’ ideas to book
Uclan offers ‘world’s first’ degree focused on core skills needed to enter growing DIY market

Uclan offers ‘world’s first’ degree focused on core skills needed to enter growing DIY market

Institution celebrates Anglican roots as it seeks to recruit students from beyond the local area

President of US-Ireland Alliance says step is sign of America’s ‘indifference to Europe’

A new marketing drive aims to boost country’s share of students from BRICS countries

Catholic author and journalist John Cornwell discusses The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession and the ‘imaginative exercise’ of religion

‘Inspirational leader’ needed as university adds £450m campus to city-centre base. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Phil Ashworth on how to get scientific experts inside the political machine

Malcolm Gillies on why the metropolis could (and perhaps should) go it alone

The vampire as cultured aesthete is the beatless heart of Jim Jarmusch’s peculiarly reassuring film, says Lucy Bolton

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

A theoretical economist whose pioneering analyses of “clubs”, patents, incentives and innovation provided important insights to lawyers and policymakers has died

Could working in a ‘team of rivals’ encourage academic creativity - and turn out better equipped graduates, too?

Experts foresee tough reaction from universities to UCU’s ‘ultimate sanction’. Jack Grove reports

Rama Thirunamachandran moots idea of a loan system ‘underpinned by the private sector’

Paper says social scientists are less intelligent than physicists and their ilk. Paul Jump writes