Habib Kazdaghli: honoured by Scholars at Risk
Dean from Tunisia’s Manouba University given Courage to Think Award

Dean from Tunisia’s Manouba University given Courage to Think Award
In the matter of Zygmunt Bauman “rebuts plagiarism accusations” (“Do not confuse pedantry with scholarship”, 3 April), I stand with the accused. In an age when academics are electronically connected...

Sigrid Sterckx on a Derrida-inspired analysis of calculation, incalculability and ending life

Redundancy talks start as body prepares for loss of grant support by 2017

Universities with high tariffs gain most under new fees regime, Hefce finds

Willetts sees potential in tie-ups with Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong

As lecturers in the UK prepare for the UCU’s marking boycott, US campuses are experiencing a surge of unionisation

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Under new system, average repayments will double, IFS finds

Years after Thatcher, says Simon Marginson, commerce is marginal to the sector. True competition would destroy its essence

Vice-chancellors and those who select them might learn from the successes – and notable failures – of politics

Nation’s universities to face QAA-style scrutiny under new regime

Laurence Coupe admires scholarly insights of a kind the REF could never hope to measure

A course from the UK can’t simply be transplanted overseas even if the language used is the same, says Rebecca Hughes

Scientists have reacted angrily to changes in A-level content announced by Michael Gove.