Recent controversies in Australia over vice-chancellors’ pay, Ramsay Centre funding and the role of academic presses have raised questions about whether university boards have too few – or, perhaps,...
Neil Dagnall and Ken Drinkwater tell Matthew Reisz about the rare pleasures of teaching and researching belief in ghosts, alien abductions and conspiracy theories
Be kind, be constructive and go easy on the free booze, conference veterans advise new and returning attendees
Chris Skidmore tells MPs he is yet to see a copy of the Augar review’s report
V-c who left school at 16 before entering university without A levels says university’s social mission is irreplaceable
Office for Students has sent ‘minded to refuse’ letters to 20 providers
Nepotism and the isolation of war have left Kosovo’s oldest university battling poor research standards, but transparency campaigners hope this is changing
Stanford University’s insistence that its press break even is another bleak milestone in corporatisation, says David Palumbo-Liu
Senator suggests that universities might want to keep more of their findings to themselves
Nanomedicine pioneer will replace Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Advocacy groups demand action from next government
British Council research warns that Brexit ‘may affect future international engagement’ of the UK
Office of the Independent Adjudicator says some English and Welsh providers did not do enough for students when lecturers walked out over pensions
Call follows revelations about Coca-Cola’s influence over some sponsored research
University lowers entry requirements by four A-level grades in £10 million widening access drive