Time for GPA, says John Raftery

Add grade point averages to honours classification for a better snapshot of student achievement, says John Raftery

Kinoteka: Pole positions, projected globally

Migration and the lessons of history inform a cinema with universal appeal, Ewa Mazierska argues

Polyglots required if we want a place in the global academy

English cannot be the only acceptable language of scholarship, says Toby Miller. It’s arrogant, impractical and anti-intellectual

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Sisterhood and After: feminist oral history archive launched

Collection established of personal accounts of Women’s Liberation Movement activists. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Suspended professor claims HR must have known of bomber’s past

London Met’s Steve Jefferys says he did nothing wrong in employing Jawad Botmeh

Welcome to the UK, but we warn you, don’t get ill

Tories may ban overseas students from using NHS

Hungry Treasury eyes universities 'awash with cash'

Further austerity measures could wreak havoc with BIS’ stretched finances

Opus versus output

Artistic practice can certainly be research - but the present model in UK universities is confused and lacks intellectual rigour, argues Nicholas Till

Trevor Elliott, 1949-2013

Trevor Elliott was born in Lancashire on 26 August 1949 and educated at Derby School. After graduating in geology from the University College of Swansea (now Swansea University) in 1970, he secured a...

Creative accountability

What does it mean for a drawing or a cabaret act to count in the REF? Matthew Reisz meets scholars whose enquiries are intertwined with their creative endeavours