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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel, by Annie Cohen-Solal

A sense of not belonging coloured an outsider’s journey to the avant-garde, learns Tracey Warr

‘Grotesque’ flow of QR cash to minnows could sink REF, scholar warns

Funding gains for smaller universities ‘risks UK research quality’

UCU calls for wage audits as gender pay gap endures

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Green Party: we will write off student loan debts

Policy proposal stands alongside a commitment to abolish tuition fees

REF 2014: impact element cost £55 million

Findings reveal the total cost to institutions of attempting to articulate impact

Instant rankings karma for workplace nirvana

One scholar imagines a university league table that puts the emphasis on fairness and diversity

Chinese students: priority number one

Attracting young people from the People’s Republic is vital for UK universities and a secure future, says Keith Burnett

Sir David Bell, Neil Gregor, R. C. Richardson, Uwe Schütte and Robert A. Segal...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Paul Kalanithi, 1977-2015

A gifted neurosurgeon who touched many readers with his reflections on mortality has died tragically young

Q&A with Maddalaine Ansell

We speak to the new chief executive of the University Alliance group

World in brief – 2 April 2015

Source: GettyUnited StatesYour presence is requestedA Christian university has defended itself after receiving criticism for requiring students to attend a rally where Ted Cruz, a Republican US...

News in brief – 2 April 2015

Postgraduate studyBIS weighs restrictions on loansThe government is considering whether to restrict postgraduate research loans to subjects “where the scientific and economic case is strongest”. The...

Grant winners – 2 April 2015

British AcademyRising Star Engagement Awards 2015This scheme provides funding of up to £15,000 to distinguished early career researchers to engage in career development by organising...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 2 April 2015

No apathy? Who cares?

There have been a number of end of spring term student protests and occupations at London universities (“Students occupy buildings at London universities”, 26 March). Strangely, however, none of...