As increasing attention is paid to the under-representation of black and minority ethnic academics in Britain, Kalwant Bhopal weighs the process and aims of the sector’s new diversity initiative
Jo Johnson becomes latest high-profile figure to take aim at elite over their access record
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January deadline figures also show slight fall in overall UK applicant numbers
Many black and ethnic minority staff at universities are also downbeat about their promotion chances, according to a new University and College Union survey
Women in Leadership conference host says schools must ‘deconstruct’ curricula to combat gender bias
Ex v-c picked up £125K for loss of office despite becoming president on v-c salary, while university paid out almost £180K to other departing staff
Drug company hopes to provide a new home for studies that try to replicate previous experimental results
Scholars seeking to make a difference are let in on the secrets of engagement, says Richard Joyner
Rachel Bowlby traces how a school of literary thought and its major figures hit the big time
As EU referendum looms, institutions step up recruitment following scrapping of student number controls
It’s a myth that Confucianism kept China unprepared for war: the empire had guns and was not afraid to use them, Jonathan Mirsky writes
The eminent anthropologist on Gielgud, T. S. Eliot, the big blind spots of big data, and a very tatty copy of Marx’s Grundrisse
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A study of the Fab Four’s legal woes reveals their naivety and reads like a thriller, says Martin James