Book of the week: Lincoln Allison is surprised by the amount of common ground he, as a traditionalist academic, now shares with the ‘innovatory managers’ he once quarrelled with
Zoë Waxman is intrigued by a poignant but little-known strand of refugee history
Christopher Hill considers the tangled history of migration into Europe and the complex lessons for today
Joad Raymond applauds a stimulating account of how mapping shaped our understanding of Europe and the world beyond
Erin Maglaque enjoys a comprehensive new study of a central figure in Italian humanism
In the first of a series of blogs, Duncan Ross outlines how the next iteration of the World University Rankings methodology may judge research
Mid-career learners, and some of the world’s biggest employers, are looking beyond the ‘graduate club’ for laser-targeted courses and skills
The cultural historian, whose latest book The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder explores the case of an 18th-century woman said to have given birth to rabbits, discusses libraries, women’s bodies and how...
Big increase would represent less than three-quarters of eligible headcount suggested by official data
The president and dean of the Asian Institute of Management tells Joyce Lau that being an introverted leader and a minority has taught her empathy
Tributes paid to ‘insightful’ agricultural ecologist who applied his theoretical understanding to food production around the world
Inability to begin reruns of experiments highlights the problem of weak methodologies of journal papers, say Center for Open Science director
Open University head says that students should be randomly allocated if a university is oversubscribed
Chinese students worth at least £1.7 billion to sector, representing more than 10 per cent of revenue at several institutions
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media