Interview with Michael Monaghan
The award-winning administrator discusses the transformational power of higher education, pulling pints on Hollyoaks, and the challenges of public speaking

The award-winning administrator discusses the transformational power of higher education, pulling pints on Hollyoaks, and the challenges of public speaking

The use of anonymous online student forums alarms many tutors. But Patricia Xavier believes universities can make them work for everyone

UK government's Prevent strategy is ‘true threat to free speech’ in universities, argues Hepi pamphlet by former US government civil rights official

Change of guard suggests tough times ahead for leading Australian universities

THE’s editor John Gill discusses the challenges of attracting academic talent with university HR directors and recruitment specialists

Data on more than 19,000 institutions show Europe lags behind leading anglophone sectors on female leadership

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Disciplinary-level assessment unlikely to survive in its current form, say sector leaders

Corruption, poverty and inequality can’t be tackled by weakening the state and driving academics abroad, says Mark Aspinwall

If academics want students to see value in course-based activities, we need to make clearer to them exactly what broader skills they will learn by completing them, says Tanya Martini

A punitive attitude towards incarceration limits the access of the US’ uniquely large prison population to college degrees. But there are signs that attitudes are finally shifting. Paul Basken...

New centre vows to tackle ‘loss of trust’ driven by technological change

Analysis of data on international co-authorship suggests being an institution under 50 years old benefits networking

New kids on the block revel, as research focus drives antipodean upstarts to new heights

Jessica Wade tells THE summit that younger institutions can create better equality policies from scratch