Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter, by Ewan Fernie
What use is the Bard? In politics or life, what you do with his plays is up to you, finds Peter J. Smith
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The Paula Principle: How and Why Women Work Below their Level of Competence, by Tom Schuller
Vicky Duckworth on the injustice and discrimination that means many working women do not fulfil their potential
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The Russell Group’s power over English education must be wielded more wisely
Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane
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Part-time ‘private’ professors: can they save niche subjects?
Medieval employment practice used by University of Amsterdam may help to preserve under-threat humanities disciplines, experts say
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Sci-Hub study suggests publishers’ embargoes ‘not viable’
Analysis of scholarly publishing’s ‘Napster’ shows that academics are not prepared to wait to access research
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Hot or not? Academics rate students’ attractiveness for study
‘Peculiar’ experiment fails to find link between physical appearance and grades
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‘Major risk’ to European research from UK’s EU budget delay
British universities would be ‘most affected’ by failure to increase Horizon 2020 funding, MEP warns
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University finances: start spreading the risk
As universities rely on multiple income streams to stay afloat, private money comes with caveats and portfolios must balance profit and principle
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Managers need basic lessons in leadership
In the feature “Leading lights” (4 May), Agnes Bäker and Amanda Goodall make an excellent and spot-on argument that the best academics make the best heads of department, which applies even higher up...
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Allan Mills, 1933-2017
Planetary scientist whose sculptures can be found across the University of Leicester’s campus is remembered
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Attrition is a price worth paying for an open university system
Australian policymakers have moved to link funding to student retention. But they must accept that desirable trends don’t all arise in perfect harmony, says Andrew Norton
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American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream, by Julia Mickenberg
Book of the week: Modern feminism can learn much from the women who visited revolutionary Russia, says Lara Douds
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Rise in universities prioritising style over scholarly substance
Students are being hoodwinked into enrolling on ‘trendy’ new degree programmes that are, according to one concerned academic, little more than a marketing exercise