Rob Behrens: role of HE ombudsman ‘now accepted’ by universities
The outgoing independent adjudicator talks to THE about eight years at the OIA and the future of sector regulation
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Paul Webley, 1953-2016
A leading economic psychologist who led [!Soas, University of London!] for almost a decade has died
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The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions, by Roger Wagner and Andrew Briggs
Richard Joyner on who is ahead in the race for dominance between science and religion
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Bad Queen Bess? Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I, by Peter Lake
Lucy Wooding on the constant suspicion and division in the Elizabethan court
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Books interview: Vincanne Adams
The medical anthropologist and editor of Metrics: What Counts in Global Health on New Orleans and Katrina, Naomi Klein and Dave Eggers, Ayn Rand and Ursula K. LeGuin
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Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era, by Jocelyn Robson
Helen Bynum on what made a married woman committed to the cause walk away from it all
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The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, by Ben Shneiderman
Jeremy Singer on a manifesto for maximum impact and insight based on addressing real-world problems in multidisciplinary teams
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What are you reading? – 17 March 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University, by James Axtell
Book of the week: the former universities minister reviews James Axtell's account of the institutions that educate the US elite
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Ombudsman: universities admitting students with bad English
Rob Behrens warns some international learners cannot express themselves properly, let alone follow a course
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Uclan paid Malcolm McVicar £63K in final month
Accounts reveal remuneration for chief executive, alongside further £1.2m loss on Cyprus campus
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Hefce serving up 'dog's dinner' with quality tenders
Critics warn against giving quality work to outsourcing companies
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Universities spending millions helping academics buy homes
Housing crisis in Oxford, Cambridge and London means the cost of loan and joint equity schemes has tripled in past five years
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The California Master Plan: exemplar of a modern higher education sector
The University of California System remains a model blueprint despite Berkeley’s travails, and one the UK would do well to copy, says Alan Ryan
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What next for art schools?
Did art schools such as Central Saint Martins ever have a golden age and, if they did, is it irrevocably lost? Anna Coatman writes