Graduates and the gender pay gap
Women graduating from part-time degrees go on to earn £7,500 less on average than their male equivalents, according to new data on higher education leavers

Women graduating from part-time degrees go on to earn £7,500 less on average than their male equivalents, according to new data on higher education leavers

Dame Ann Dowling warns that universities that put too high a price on their intellectual property may hamper a spin-off’s success

Paper turned down for plagiarising surfaces in another of publisher’s journals

Deal with for-profit firm INTO University Partnerships cancelled due to lack of ‘common ground’

Unions tell university that a resolution is not possible in dispute over new career structures

Apple director and Open University v-c tell Universia International Presidents’ Meeting 2014 in Brazil to think pedagogy, not technology

Welsh institution helps keep the maritime economy afloat as applications remain buoyant

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Why would a university stand by Mordechai Kedar after his abhorrent comments about rape as a terror deterrent? asks Neve Gordon

Archive of Lake Distrtict dynasty also ‘invaluable’ for scholars studying John Ruskin and Arthur Ransome

Barbara Graziosi ponders the different types who, over several centuries, criss-crossed the Mediterranean

Jonathan Mirsky on how Mao unwittingly helped to stir up and then crushed a longing for democracy and equality among millions of young people

A study of pioneering women collates stories that might otherwise be lost, writes Ruth Woodfield

Peter J. Smith is left bewildered by an ambitious attempt to identify the units that make up Shakespeare’s plays

Social dynamics that affect elite US students are indicative of a broader trend, finds Julie J. Park