George Soros’ $1 billion gift launches global university network
Universities will come together to offer joint degree programmes and research projects
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Skidmore: ‘MIT of the North’ is ‘already staring us in the face’
Universities minister says north-south divide cannot be solved ‘in a top-down way, driven by central government diktat’
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In equalities work, gender is privileged over race
UK research funding and sector awards should be linked to institutions’ work under the Race Equality Charter, says Kalwant BhopalÂ
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Students ‘stranded’ in UK after university paused recruitment
About 180 students affected by turmoil at Richmond, the American University of London, with some having travelled to the UK before learning of problems
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ߣߣÊÓƵn government accused of politicising grant announcements
Research grants that have languished in ߣߣÊÓƵn politicians’ to-do trays are ‘spun’ as rapid government action
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Have ‘safe spaces’ limited art students’ licence to offend?
Matthew Reisz talks to Grayson Perry and an academic expert on performance art about the limits of student artistic expression in higher educationÂ
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Teaching-only contracts up again as REF approaches
Almost a third of staff in UK higher education are now classed as teaching-only
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Sunderland and SOAS cuts expose market dangers, say scholars
Academics claim that, as well as impoverishing some institutions, removal of number controls has led to overcrowding at other institutions
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Oxford start-up hub aims to help create 4,000 jobs
Research England throws weight behind new innovation project that promises to raise nearly £1 billion in private capital
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Queensland enlisted in search for coronavirus vaccine
ߣߣÊÓƵn university joins race to control virus
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The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures, by Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath
Book of the week: Lincoln Allison is surprised by the amount of common ground he, as a traditionalist academic, now shares with the ‘innovatory managers’ he once quarrelled withÂ
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Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933-1945, by Joanna Newman
Zoë Waxman is intrigued by a poignant but little-known strand of refugee history
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The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present, by Peter Gatrell
Christopher Hill considers the tangled history of migration into Europe and the complex lessons for today
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Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe, by Katharina N. Piechocki
Joad Raymond applauds a stimulating account of how mapping shaped our understanding of Europe and the world beyond
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Giannozzo Manetti: The Life of a Florentine Humanist, by David Marsh
Erin Maglaque enjoys a comprehensive new study of a central figure in Italian humanism