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Failure to evaluate the impact of widening participation funding - and to fight for its retention - has left it vulnerable to the axe

Failure to evaluate the impact of widening participation funding - and to fight for its retention - has left it vulnerable to the axe

Martin McQuillan on graduate earnings by subject and institution: the Manhattan Project for the English sector?

Dame Julia King’s institution is tackling gender inequality - it is high time that the rest of the sector followed suit, she argues

Open-access advocates are utopian thinkers whose ideas work only if you ignore the costs of journal publishing, argues Richard Hoyle

US politics is not keen on the theoretical, Alan Ryan discovers
Zero Marx for Gove’s time warp (again)Michael Gove is stuck in a time warp (“Enemy of promise”, 13 June). Twenty-five years ago, the radical Right was publishing similar scare stories about Marxists...

Student protests in Quebec brought down a government but failed to freeze tuition fees: what’s next for a province where universities remain high on the political agenda? Elizabeth Gibney reports...

The erosion of women’s, gender and sexuality studies in UK universities will prove detrimental to the academy and wider society, argues Lisa Downing

After one epic throw Chris Hackley was a Titan among boys, but unlike the object he propelled his sporting career never took flight

Aaron Rosen is entranced by the V&A’s daring exhibition, where words and art fuse to bring a dystopian vision to life

Jules Pretty sets course on a journey across the oceans that haunt our imaginations

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

The platitude is right after all, says Steven Schwartz - it is better to give than receive

Mary Evans relishes this re-evaluation of a landmark work’s collective construction

Tim Birkhead on bird fanciers’ engagement with nature