Continental drift towards global alliances 'not in Africa's interests'
Build bridges closer to home to stop best minds going West, conference is told. Jack Grove reports
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Cuts threaten access reputation, Ulster staff claim
Academics fear that 'provision of teaching will be seriously diminished'. Matthew Reisz writes
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News in brief
University accessDux for cover? Elite should payA government scheme to reward top state school pupils with a visit to a Russell Group institution has been branded as "tokenism" by a university...
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Hunting parallels, but don's life is stranger than fiction
Jack Grove hears how a chance encounter propelled Arthur Gibson from Bradford's slums to Cambridge's high table
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News in brief
United StatesState of the union: deniedA US governor has signed a bill prohibiting postgraduate students from forming unions at public universities in his state. Rick Snyder, the governor of Michigan...
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A sister act of positive discrimination to benefit all
Afghan politician strives to promote equal opportunity in divided land. Lianne Gutcher writes
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US study highlights need for wider leadership pool
Meet your average American college president: he's a 61-year-old married white man who has been in his current role for seven years and boasts a doctorate in education.This profile, from the American...
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An inclusive mission
As a scholar at Cambridge, Rowan Williams will continue pursuing a communal search for truth, says Benjamin Myers
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Hate has no place here
The sector must consider the law, confront its own prejudices, update its codes and banish the extremists from campus, says Ruth Deech
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Russell Group: Suits you, Sir
Our vice-chancellor has announced that he "perfectly understands" the reasoning that has led the universities of Exeter, Durham, York and Queen Mary, University of London to abandon their current...
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Dismantle the tower of 'edu-babble'
I am not at all surprised by the poor notices for the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which to me highlight the fact that the Higher Education Academy is probably unfit for purpose...
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Core expression
On 23 January, a meeting of the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society at Queen Mary, University of London called to discuss "Sharia law and human rights" was disrupted before the invited speaker,...
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Prejudicial enquiries
You say that the Academic Reputation Survey is based on the "considered, expert judgement of senior, published academics" ("Informed opinion at the heart of the matter", Times Higher Education World...
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No mandate for change
In The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (1991), Albert O. Hirschman warns that a typical trope from the camp of reaction is that an action will produce, via a trail of unintended...
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Analysis of poverty is poor (1 of 2)
Your lead book review does no favours to those wary of the forthcoming research excellence framework ("A wealth of detail on a conundrum", 15 March). Howard Davies knows a bit about failure from his...