The secret fantasies of the political classes
Pulp thrillers by MPs reveal something disturbing about Britain’s political unconscious, say Nicola Allen and Aidan Byrne
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Q&A with Jackie Ashley
We speak to the next president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, the only women’s university college in Europe for students aged 21 and over
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'Universities are selling things to people - they are businesses'
Aston business school dean prizes feedback from alumni and employers as institutions begin to work like corporations
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‘We have bragging rights!’
In a week in which a grand total of 32 vice-chancellors have reportedly boasted in internal emails that their university has become a top 10 UK university based on the recent results of the research...
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School of Advanced Study reaffirms commitment to digital research
New professors in digital history and digital humanities are examples of institution performing its ‘national role’
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Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment, by Benjamin J. Kaplan
A tale of the priest, the boy, his aunt and her arrest in 1762 is first-rate micro-history, says Alec Ryrie
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Keep adding colour to academic online self-portraits
Junior scholars urged to develop robust profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to boost their careers and ward off risk of ‘shadow self’
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Global universities take pride in hiring home-grown talent
Academic inbreeding is not considered unusual or problematic in many countries, according to study
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Don’t be afraid: live in the light
Universities must have at heart a public ethos counterbalance to weigh against commercial interests and state diktat
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Durham University rent covers bed, board and investment costs
Email reveals that a third of accommodation payments is spent on capital and borrowing expenditure
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Senior administrative staff salary details kept secret
Universities claim releasing information would harm commercial interests or breach staff privacy
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Is your university Twitter profile perfect?
Things to say, and things to not say, in a campus biography
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Dutch universities dig in for long fight over open access
Institutions ‘unbending’ on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume
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Universities must not become part of the security apparatus
The counter-terrorism bill will co-opt academics into the ‘securocrat’ and chill debate on campus - it must be fought, says Martin Hall
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Multidisciplinary departments: do they work?
Tim Hall describes staff and student experiences of interdisciplinary mergers, including an awkward departmental ‘speed date’