What should computer science degree students learn?
Conference hears that fundamental skills, rather than specific languages, will serve graduates throughout their careers
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Interview with Nigel Healey
We talk globalisation, internationalisation and Marmite with the future head of a South Pacific university
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Alan Milburn: reward student potential not ‘past endeavour’
In a THE interview, the government’s social mobility adviser and Lancaster chancellor also criticises Jeremy Corbyn fees policy
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Elizabeth Eisenstein, 1923-2016
A historian who transformed our understanding of the origins of ‘print culture’ has died
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EU nationals fill four in 10 new university jobs in England
Non-EU citizens took one in five new posts over past decade, leaving 40 per cent of posts for UK researchers, Hefce figures show
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Shakespeare 400 – how the Bard influenced Africa
New book from University of Cambridge academic considers how Shakespeare became a powerful presence from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar
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Stanford president sceptical on global university partnerships
John Hennessy also tells THE of his regret at not launching New York campus
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Can joint PhDs get more Brits studying abroad?
Joint PhD programmes that split doctoral studies between different universities may help to improve low outward mobility
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End of grants 'likely to force thousands more students to work'
About half of poorer students would have applied to university differently without a grant, Sodexo research also suggests
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What Works: Gender Equality by Design, by Iris Bohnet
Book of the week: With people vulnerable to bias, lack of diversity might be better tackled at organisational level, Victoria Bateman says
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Home: How Habitat Made Us Human, by John S. Allen
Simon Underdown on the novel notion that four walls were key to our development as a species
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The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency, by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for the White House. Elizabeth Cobbs enjoys an entertaining look at her and her predecessors
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What are you reading? – 10 March 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Slap Shot Science: A Curious Fan’s Guide to Hockey, by Alain Haché
A captivating study of Canadians’ national game skates over one element, says Andrew Robinson