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After her first book, The Entrepreneurial State, catapulted her into the academic stratosphere, the UCL economist has paused her audiences with senior politicians to write a follow-up that uses the Apollo moonshot as a model for a mission-based approach to social challenges

Gavin Williamson’s call for OfS to ‘support individual academics’ in curriculum rows could ‘set up wall with university leadership’

Toronto professor offers path to ‘innovation in real places’, arguing that prestige research universities aren’t that important

Lord Wharton says ‘top universities’ should have lighter-touch regulation in pre-appointment hearing

Concerns raised over potential lack of opt-out and charging regime

Government’s ‘interim response’ to Augar review puts off big decisions but signals drive to lower costs of system

Hepi paper by former Uclan deputy v-c calls for new funding system in which richest graduates pay more

Freshly inaugurated US president Joe Biden owes his election victory to swing states in America’s Rust Belt. But is his plan to revitalise them by creating ‘millions of new manufacturing and innovation’ jobs realistic? And how best can universities play their part? John Morgan reports

Office for Students proposal to measure student progress to ‘professional’ jobs without benchmarking could deter universities from recruiting disadvantaged learners, sector warns

V-cs urge government to compensate universities over pandemic rent waivers, with fee refunds also expected to become ‘political football’

Economist calls for emphasis on wages and jobs as antidote to ‘failed’ doctrines, as he takes up Glasgow role looking at independent Scotland