Anthony Abraham Jack’s new book distinguishes two kinds of under-represented students and sets out what universities need to do if they truly want to recruit the most disadvantaged students. Matthew...
Book of the week: A riveting tale of India’s imposition of exceptional powers has new resonance for Priyamvada Gopal
Why was the Russian empress drawn to a French intellectual opponent? asks Yvonne Sherratt
James Stevens Curl relishes the extraordinary visual splendours of a fin-de-siècle creative explosion
Phone habits of the developing world; the cult of the cute; problems on the home front; game theories; and beggar thy neighbour
Can sharing a city with a more prestigious neighbour make it easier or harder for an institution to realise its value? Jack Grove examines the competition
Novels penned under a fake identity speak their own truths about fiction, says Rohan McWilliam
In the online era, authors are expected to do their own publicity and readers have much more power, finds Andrew Blake
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Tributes paid to pioneering philosopher who established guidelines on embryo research in the UK
Evidence on international students’ tax payments raises ‘serious concerns’ about rejection of post-study work visa return, says report for Hepi
Average success rate for European Commission programme stands at 12 per cent
Post-18 education review also said to have looked at proposals to allocate top-up public funding according to subjects’ cost of provision
Matthew Reisz considers the work of researchers who have shed light on the ‘invisibility’ of social class in US universities
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media