Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president
First female leader of the Ivy League institution has championed diversity during her tenure

First female leader of the Ivy League institution has championed diversity during her tenure

MIT professor who advised US government on nuclear physics remembered

We talk diversity, the joy of family meals and Professor Stephen Hawking with the new Cambridge college master

Deft hands make light work of the incomplete ‘jigsaw’ that is physics, says Cait MacPhee

A thoughtful study by the head of Utrecht University focuses on the forces reshaping the sector, says David Wheeler

Clare Bambra commends a polemic that shines a light on the fatal flaws in US healthcare policy

Matthew Feldman appreciates an enlightening exploration of radicalisation and its causes

Figures from latest Times Higher Education/Grant Thornton survey highlight ‘arbitrary nature’ of awards, says UCU

Peter Cherry knew something was wrong when other applicants arrived in Madrid with several suitcases of documents

Hermann Hauser calls on vice-chancellors to ‘take a stand against pseudoscience’

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