In the shadow of Erdogan
I was very interested to read your article about Turkish academics seeking asylum in the West and I thank you for it (“Turkey’s purge of academia leads to record asylum requests”, News, 16 September...
I was very interested to read your article about Turkish academics seeking asylum in the West and I thank you for it (“Turkey’s purge of academia leads to record asylum requests”, News, 16 September...
The decision by senior managers at Queen’s-University Belfast to close its single honours degree in sociology is an abdication of the university’s responsibility to offer students in Northern Ireland...
I wonder if any other part-time lecturers have had my recent experience. Last May, I was delighted when a college of the University of London accepted my proposal to teach a third-year undergraduate...
Lord Mandelson questions how the cost of scrapping tuition fees would be funded. “By spending less on health or housing?” he answers rhetorically (“Peter Mandelson: Brexit an ‘act of self-harm’ that...

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

The world judges in black and white and only strict adherence to principle can regain the public’s trust

We speak to Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters about the growing acceptance of graphic novels as a serious literary genre, the rich history of francophone comics and his favourite Tintin books

A management consultant whose many studies of the sector gained him an OBE in higher education has died

Academic journal editor-turned-lecturer Hilary Hamnett explains the most common reasons why papers are rejected

Academic attainment of disadvantaged students can be improved if they can decide how they are assessed, study claims

Academic science still operates on assumptions that have failed to catch up with the realities of today’s family lives, argue scholars

Richard Murphy is enthralled by an insider’s story of a secretive profession that intensifies inequality

A. W. Purdue on the suffering of populations of multi-ethnic empires in the years after the Great War