In full: Jo Johnson speech to the Hefce annual conference 2017
Transcript of the speech delivered by Jo Johnson, universities and science minister, at the 2017 annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England

Transcript of the speech delivered by Jo Johnson, universities and science minister, at the 2017 annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Removing university status from post-92 institutions would disproportionately impact already marginalised and vulnerable social groups, says Ben Whitham

Framework to measure university-business links would follow TEF and REF

A Santander Universities scholarship was crucial for Maria to move to London to attend university and ultimately end up in her dream job

Link comes as nation’s two sectors face potential major upheaval

In the past six years, the number of new part-time students in England has fallen by 56 per cent, writes Peter Horrocks

Squeamishness about advocacy is out of date. Evidence and freedom of enquiry must be defended, says Aymen Idris

Scientific developments from the microscopic to intergalactic deemed worthy of this year’s awards

Institution’s Canadian leader tackles executive remuneration, Brexit and diversifying the university’s student intake in THE interview

Academic work is typically all-consuming, but some scholars still manage to combine some eye-catching sidelines with their day jobs. Here, five tell their stories

A study of far-right fringe groups in Italy is too forgiving and uncritical, says R. J. B. Bosworth

Matthew Feldman praises a sharp and clear-sighted examination of the new extreme forms of right-wing politics in the US

The scholar of East European studies and author of Red Hangover on reading for escape, quoting Lenin at the Model United Nations and understanding everyday life ‘behind the Iron Curtain’

An unsettling study of patients in comas reveals that consciousness endures, says Shane O’Mara