Does a high price always mean high quality?
Malcolm Gillies on contradictory attitudes to soaring fees and value for money

Malcolm Gillies on contradictory attitudes to soaring fees and value for money

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

June Purvis discusses conservative contributions to gender equality

Julia Droeber is humbled by the courage of everyday resistance

Robert Mayhew on the human need to travel to extreme environments that nourish the spirit

Matthew Feldman on a study of the Nobel prize-winning existentialist author through the themes that preoccupied him

Shahidha Bari on a literary biography of the siblings’ creative collaboration

University accounts will show write-down of £3.2 million

Government speeds visas and extends post-study work opportunities

An exhibition built around the collection of a historian and art hoarder reveals his boundless capacity for seeing things, Alexander Massouras finds

Review rejects MPs’ criticisms of gaps in its data

Flora Samuel is impressed by a message of regeneration

The idea that universities are hotbeds of incivility is implausible, says Emrys Westacott

Press offices attempt news management via popular data source

Universities told not to mope like teenage brunettes with blonde ambitions