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As students’ associations change and rely more on grants from universities, is their independence at risk?
The year’s best reads for work and pleasure, chosen by scholars and senior figures in the sector
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
We very much regret to report the death by stabbing of one of Poppleton's leading academics.According to unconfirmed reports, Doctor T.W. Petherbridge, of our Department of Medieval History, met his...
A nightmarish vision of the worst that the future could hold for English universities was set out at the Association of University Administrators conference at the University of Nottingham this week.
World rankingsNeeded but not always wantedWorld university rankings are "like vice-chancellors and in-laws: we may not always like them, but we know we need them". That was the argument made by Kevin...
A handful of universities have produced more than their share of vice-chancellors. Jack Grove looks at how these centres have nurtured talented leaders
The UK sector’s growing involvement in offshore education includes everything from branch campuses and institutional partnerships to validation and franchising. David Matthews weighs the different...
University of OxfordLifeline for languageResearchers are in a race against time to document a dying language that is now spoken by only three people. Suriel Mofu, from the University of Oxford's...
Postgraduate and employee are arrested over research material. Melanie Newman reports
Public policy and institutional profit-seeking could be disastrous, claims UCU. Melanie Newman reports
Institutions want to halt ads targeting students left 'to drift' by 'underfunded' universities. Phil Baty writes. Universities are up in arms over a private tuition service that is targeting campuses...