PGCE retains status after coalition split
Recommendation in report on teacher training appeared to downgrade the value of postgraduate qualifications

Recommendation in report on teacher training appeared to downgrade the value of postgraduate qualifications

Angela Constance urges universities to take the lead on access as she decries principals’ pay rises and confirms talks on post-study work visa

Journal prices could rise further if Springer-Macmillan deal goes ahead, some fear

Lecturer agrees an out-of-court settlement after the UCU sought to reclaim its legal costs

Former AAUP head and others aim to sway ‘non-fanatical’ supporters of sanctions with The Case against Academic Boycotts of Israel

Local residents won’t be forgotten amid expansion to boost student experience and strategic research areas, says Anton Muscatelli

Professor’s dream as a student is realised as library launches first five volumes in bilingual series

Russia’s Tomsk State University is banking on the region’s natural assets and an English language push to attract foreign students and scholars

Kevin Fong examines his responses to £35,000 a year degree

Uwe Schütte on the German band whose electronic beats and futuristic visions are still relevant today

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Jonathan Mirsky on one family’s memories of life in a Shanghai alleyway, from Mao to the modern day

Alec Ryrie welcomes a study of an Elizabethan scholar that dispels a posthumous Puritan label

Fred Inglis on a collection of articles that touches on, but should have focused on, the corruption of universities by corporate forces

Robert Gellately on how Hitler’s forces tried to forge alliances with Muslims during the Second World War