Russell Group chair hits back at ‘noise’ of university attacks
Glasgow vice-chancellor Sir Anton Muscatelli defends ‘cost-efficient’ sector driving UK growth
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China and Germany strengthen on graduate employability
Snapshot from latest Global University Employability Ranking suggests relative reputation of US and UK graduates may be slipping
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Bogus accounting and irrelevant populism cannot fill Labour’s £11 billion black hole
Andrew Adonis’s account of how Labour could fund universities if tuition fees were abolished lacks credibility, says David Willetts
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An academic’s tell-all tale that omits the day job
Books editor Matthew Reisz finds the philosopher and social theorist Jonathan Dollimore’s memoir a fascinating confessional despite its omission of his life in work
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, by Christopher J. Lebron
Protest movement against racial oppression in US belongs to a long tradition, says Martin Myers
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What are you reading? – 7 September 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 7 September 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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THE Awards 2017: shortlist announced
List of finalists for the ‘Oscars’ of the higher education sector released
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UK universities are national treasures that need care and attention
Britain has a remarkably strong higher education system that makes it a world-leading player, and it requires tending, not trashing
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India is right to reset its goals for universities
The news about India’s shelving its foreign universities “pipe dream” in favour of the creation of new domestic “institutions of eminence” (“India shelves its foreign universities ‘pipe dream’”, News...
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Admin’s burdens
I wonder whether “another academic”, whose letter “State of the uni” bemoaned the “ludicrous amount of paperwork” in UK higher education (Letters, 24 August), could be induced to divulge which...
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Lower order letters
In her review of Janet Sorensen’s Strange Vernaculars, Elspeth Jajdelska says the book “explains how the speech of criminals, provincials, the labouring classes and sailors was recreated in print to...
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Structural break
Emma Rees rightly pleads for a summer holiday away from “Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault too…” (“Crumbs of comfort on the beach”, 24 August). Don’t we all need a break as well from Saussure, the father...