Building a diverse staff and student body requires a nuanced approach, says Sarah Springman, who identifies three areas where institutions can push for more inclusion, especially around gender
Rise in Continental recruitment offsets overall flattening in transnational education numbers
Manoeuvre seen as ethically flawed but also as a sign of the country’s growing student debt crisis
Jo Johnson is back in his old brief as England’s universities and science minister, reappointed by the prime minister, his brother Boris. John Morgan looks at his most pressing challenges – some his...
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Brexit will be a disaster for HE, but do the new prime minister’s past utterances offer clues on what else universities might expect?
Richard Joyner remembers a difficult era for British science
Luca Dal Zilio welcomes a compelling insider’s account of our increasing understanding of the science of earthquakes
Tributes paid to a scholar with ‘empathy’ for understanding people of different faiths
A.W. Purdue is unconvinced by an attempt to put military planning on a more scientific footing
Zoë Waxman considers an analysis of the age-old tendency to report people next door to the authorities
Book of the week: Kerry Brown applauds a nonagenarian’s analysis of ‘one of the world’s key relationships’
New twist in case which triggered departure of vice-chancellor and management dean
Former deputy Liberal leader to assume the reins from Gareth Evans
Matthew Reisz considers the tools we need to explore the wilder shores of performance art