A referee with 50 games on the go at once
Profile: Ruth Deech, student administrator Six months after calling time on a 34-year career at Oxford University one might expect to find Dame Ruth Deech taking things a little easier. Instead, the...
Profile: Ruth Deech, student administrator Six months after calling time on a 34-year career at Oxford University one might expect to find Dame Ruth Deech taking things a little easier. Instead, the...
Historian vice-chancellor Evelyn Welch has faced criticism for marking final-year dissertations personally
Australian government advised to ban agents from taking commission for recruiting foreign students already in country and to ‘link’ visas to institutions
Legal backers say €40 million class action case could set precedent for universities in around 50 countries bound by the Lisbon recognition convention
Case prompts renewed concern over plight of lecturers on temporary contracts
Delaware associate professor of marine science faces sacking after top journals retracted her articles, but she claims a faculty report exonerates her
‘Creeping authoritarianism’ and university expansion behind Ryan Craig’s play, after academia largely absent from UK stage since 1980s
In high-profile instance of Trump administration crackdown, former Harvard nanoscientist gets leniency as he faces incurable cancer
When Purdue biologist David Sanders ran for election to Indiana’s senate last autumn, he assumed a commitment to evidence and personal engagement would give him traction. But while his pitch was well...
Fast-growing Los Angeles campus had long insisted no impropriety in luring Paul Aisen, his data and his team
Demands of part-time jobs lead some students to settle for lower grades, with balancing commitments now biggest source of stress
The pan-continental alliances face many issues, but Erasmus took three decades to attain its present success, says Anthony Forster
Tough new demands requiring institutions to produce world-class research could put some universities’ titles under threat. But is that a good thing?
Two of Britain’s leading academics will present a contemporary take on an iconic television programme
When her broadcasting career took off in her mid-fifties, Mary Beard became one of Britain’s best-known and most-discussed academics. Jack Grove speaks to the retiring Cambridge classicist about her...