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Fred Inglis on the way we think now

Thirty years after Clifford Geertz assessed the state of thinking in the academy, the duty of academics to render the unspeakable unspeakable is imperative

Winners and losers in Hefce funding allocations

REF-based distribution of £1.6bn research pot results in some big changes

Miwa Hirono: my ɫ��ֱ�� Office hell

Top academics will be increasingly reluctant to come to the UK, says Hirono, who is being forced to quit Britain despite her permanent post

Does the sector need a ‘teaching REF’?

John Morgan examines the progress of a vision of parity between pedagogy and research

World in brief – 26 March 2015

Source: RexUnited StatesUAE critic is now persona non grataA New York University lecturer has been barred from travelling to the United Arab Emirates to visit the university’s campus there because he...

Saudi delivers undiplomatic verdict on UK universities

‘Lower standards’ at some institutions a result of rush to recruit overseas students, says embassy’s cultural attaché

26 March 2015

Scored or floored? – How the REF has made winners and losers in Hefce’s funding allocations

The Palestinian academy: pressing concerns and future prospects

Matthew Reisz examines how scholars in the region cope with constraints as they continue to hope for a possible future independent state

Peter Medway, 1941-2015

A researcher who greatly enhanced our understanding of the importance of writing skills within secondary English teaching has died

Q&A with Christine Chinkin

We speak to the inaugural director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics

Make mine a double first

A whistleblower’s account of how an institution manipulated graduate employment statistics made for sobering reading, but it also drove the Twitterati to drink-related puns

Grant winners – 26 March 2015

National Institute for Health ResearchEfficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programmeAward winner: Andrea Grace RockallInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £578,090Development and evaluation of...

News in brief – 26 March 2015

Source: Chinese University of Hong KongRoyal SocietyNobelist wins presidential ballotNobel laureate Sir Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan has been named president elect of the Royal Society, after a...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 26 March 2015

Obsolete differences

Aristotle first divided the arts from the sciences and, on balance, I think he got it right (“Two tribes? Look for similarities instead of spotting differences”, Opinion, 19 March). Works of art are...