In full: Jo Johnson speech to the Hefce annual conference 2017
Transcript of the speech delivered by Jo Johnson, universities and science minister, at the 2017 annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England
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The week in higher education – 12 October 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Andrew Adonis wants to keep people like me out of politics
Removing university status from post-92 institutions would disproportionately impact already marginalised and vulnerable social groups, says Ben Whitham
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Jo Johnson plans for KEF to measure knowledge exchange
Framework to measure university-business links would follow TEF and REF
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UK’s MillionPlus and Australia’s RUN to collaborate on policy
Link comes as nation’s two sectors face potential major upheaval
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Mature and part-time students: the real crisis of the high fees era
In the past six years, the number of new part-time students in England has fallen by 56 per cent, writes Peter Horrocks
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Scientists must push to end the reefer madness
Squeamishness about advocacy is out of date. Evidence and freedom of enquiry must be defended, says Aymen Idris
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Nobel prizes 2017: panel honours advancements to science
Scientific developments from the microscopic to intergalactic deemed worthy of this year’s awards
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‘I understand anger over v-c pay’, says new Cambridge head
Institution’s Canadian leader tackles executive remuneration, Brexit and diversifying the university’s student intake in ɫºÐÖ±²¥ interview
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Leading a double life: academics with extraordinary second careers
Academic work is typically all-consuming, but some scholars still manage to combine some eye-catching sidelines with their day jobs. Here, five tell their stories
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Sacrifice: My Life in a Fascist Militia, by Alessandro Orsini
A study of far-right fringe groups in Italy is too forgiving and uncritical, says R. J. B. Bosworth
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right, by George Hawley
Matthew Feldman praises a sharp and clear-sighted examination of the new extreme forms of right-wing politics in the US
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Books interview: Kristen Ghodsee
The scholar of East European studies and author of Red Hangover on reading for escape, quoting Lenin at the Model United Nations and understanding everyday life ‘behind the Iron Curtain’
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Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death, by Adrian Owen
An unsettling study of patients in comas reveals that consciousness endures, says Shane O’Mara
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The Biopolitics of Gender, by Jemima Repo
A provocative study into a controversial subject is let down by a dense, academic style, says Deborah D. Rogers