Campus close-up: ‘Authoritative voice’ set to project on the world stage
UCL-led centre aims to clarify complexity – and dispel a few myths, too

UCL-led centre aims to clarify complexity – and dispel a few myths, too

A leading scientist and industrialist who served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Nottingham has died

We speak to the British Academy’s chief executive elect

Does power corrupt? THE’s Twitter followers put the proposition to the test

The University of Hong Kong’s Peter Mathieson tells John Morgan about the Occupy protests, political pressure and being an outsider

Bringing Belarus into the fold has required behind the scenes manoeuvring, but has left the organisation stronger as a result, says Anne Corbett

A South West doctoral training centre’s student-run open access title is providing hands-on experience

For 50 years, the Society for Research into Higher Education has explored vital questions about higher education practice and policy, and it intends to continue

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Popular action can still make a difference, as the U-turn on the fate of a university politics department shows, says John Holford

Christopher Bigsby on the markers and measures of a journey’s end

An extraordinary juxtaposition of Gothic folly and fantastical sculpture has created a show to fire the imagination, says Matthew Reisz

Unexpectedly in charge of a room of students fretting over the colour of answer booklets, Emma Rees ponders the potential price in dog lives

Early issues of the journal Studies in Higher Education show how greatly academics’ view of what they do has changed, says Bruce Macfarlane