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Students at Pearson College get green light for SLC funds

Private provider passes QAA’s new review, making domestic intake eligible for public funding

Friction at Queen Mary

For someone of his seniority, the manner of John Allen’s ejection from Queen Mary University of London was unprecedented (“Queen Mary dismissal”, Letters, 14 August). After notice of dismissal was...

International and postgrad fee survey, 2014

Tuition fees are rising for overseas students. If the cap on undergraduate fees is lifted, will they follow suit?

Thomas Docherty’s ban left University of Warwick students in limbo

Silence greeted requests for references or PhD guidance from professor

Low publication output for female scientists

Analysis suggests that male physicists and mathematicians author nearly 50 per cent more papers than female colleagues

Clark: record recruitment will not compromise student experience

Fears of overcrowded courses and falling standards as university admissions set to exceed 500,000 for first time

Maryam Mirzakhani: the right woman at the right time

After almost 80 years, a woman has won the Fields Medal. Caroline Series on female mathematicians coming of age

Celebrity masterminds: Laurie Taylor and Sally Feldman on fame

Sociologist’s and media scholar’s work on TV interview series furnished raw material for a study of the limelight and those in it

Pumping iron with the female bodybuilders

Tanya Bunsell’s immersion in the world of weightlifting yielded insights into steroid use and ‘muscle worship’

Subject: Leadership Conference

University of Dundee PFI scheme deemed ‘unsustainable’

Institution looks for new business model to pay for halls of residence

Polish academics return from Silicon Valley ‘willing to take risks’

Elite scholars are visiting the universities of Stanford and Berkeley in a mission to boost the country’s standing in a European innovation index

Five applicants for every place on postgraduate scholarship scheme

1,700 students apply for 350 places on biggest programme ever run in the UK

Let the right one in: hiring academic staff

Recruitment processes at UK universities need an overhaul if we are to hire the best people, argues Thomas Harrison

Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War, by Elisabeth Shipton

Niamh Gallagher on the women who challenged the consensus of who could serve at the front