The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Makes Us More and Less Violent, by Richard Wrangham
Book of the week: Camilla Power assesses a bold new approach to the origins of morality

Book of the week: Camilla Power assesses a bold new approach to the origins of morality

Liz Gloyn enjoys a bold attempt to tell the story of a fascinating but largely forgotten woman

Astrophysics breakthrough a triumph of ‘science diplomacy’

Expanded awards ceremony now incorporates categories from THE Leadership and Management Awards

Tributes paid to Regius professor of engineering at Edinburgh

The Blavatnik Award winner discusses her dramatic childhood in Poland, switching from physics to biology, and the importance of ‘blebs’

Candid interviews with Chinese university presidents and government officials reveal widespread doubt that institutional freedom has increased

Former universities minister says that, while parents of students with poorer A-levels could pay fees up front, less affluent families could not

American University in Cairo withdraws chair in comparative religions at request of donor’s son

Institutions becoming increasingly reliant on agreements that silence departing staff, according to freedom of information responses

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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A Labor victory in May’s election could still see funding conditional on universities’ employability, diversity or research records, says Andrew Norton

Robert MacIntosh considers how university staff should approach the management merry-go-round of vice-chancellors, pro vice-chancellors and department heads