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Employers raise the Ucas hurdle higher

Graduate recruiters doubt comparability of degree results. David Matthews reports

End of chapter as Bodley's head goes stateside

Sarah Thomas leaves Oxford’s Bodleian Library to take up vice-president post at Harvard Library

Hotly contested potato

Prepare for some Darwin-on-Mendel action: it’s the ‘exam howlers’ 2013. Jack Grove writes

Campus round-up

Animated reactionA music video created by an academic has won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Animation. The stop-motion film for the band Fossil Collective’s single Let it Go was made by...

News in brief

ߣߣÊÓƵMinister has no time for impactThe ߣߣÊÓƵn education minister has said that measuring research impact is not necessarily a priority or a worthwhile endeavour. Kim Carr, who recently...

Surrey proposed 2:1 target to assess staff

Plans were abandoned only after ‘extensive negotiations’ with union. Jack Grove reports

Leader - Brand in glove

In India, the US, the UK and beyond, branding is an inescapable part of higher education, for good or ill

Avril Goodwin, Joshua Gross, Dragana Obradovic, Brandy Schillace and Joanna Williams...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court, by Anna Whitelock

Peter Gwyn seeks more interpretation in a biography of the Virgin Queen and her male favourites and Ladies of the Bedchamber

The ‘I’ of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing, by Nigel Nicholson

Jean Hartley on the qualities and insights necessary in leaders

Postgraduate funding: Willetts is banking on it

Minister wants career development loan schemes to fill postgrad gap. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf, by Susan David Bernstein

Colin Higgins on Victorian women writers and poets who thrived, or not, in the atmosphere of the Round Reading Room

Laurie Taylor

Dubious punishment: Hefce's 'ultimate sanction' may prove empty threat

Critics doubt legality of regulatory framework’s disciplinary powers

Hefce leadership search enters interview phase

Hefce interviews for chief executive post: will a woman get the nod at last? John Morgan reports