Roger Morgan on the Franco-German alliance within the EU and its effect on decision-making in the union
Sarah Harper on the changing approach of the media and governments to ageing populations
University vice-chancellor reveals the struggle to educate students who have been brutalised by civil war
For long-term prosperity, universities in war-torn countries must focus on rebuilding infrastructure, conference hears
A student has started a campaign against sexism after enduring misogynistic heckling during a debating competition. Rebecca Meredith, a politics student at King’s College, Cambridge, said she was...
I am surprised to note no women among the 11 named speakers in your advertisement for the forthcoming World Academic Summit (7 March). I do hope that this is not representative of the “senior...
‘Common principles’ plan aims to protect research from risk-averse committees. Paul Jump reports
‘Unpredictable outcomes’ of reform require ‘immediate attention
Matthew Reisz visits an exhibition to celebrate the bicentenary of a pioneering epidemiologist
“Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.” The words are Percy Shelley’s, and among a readership such as that of ߣߣƵ,...
Sexism on campusLad culture endemic: NUS studyMore than half of female students experience “prevailing sexism, ‘laddism’ and a culture of harassment” at their universities, according to a survey by...
United StatesHonesty and the non-PC deanThe interim dean of a US university’s school of law has stood down saying he was “too politically incorrect” and not a good fit for the position. Tom Keefe,...
A feud at the heart of the discipline is undermining efforts to build a unified science of humanity, warns Camilla Power
Venezuela’s revolution will not die with its leader, but will live on in its academy, says Mike Cole
David Matthews meets a Syrian doctoral student at a UK university who is struggling to secure her future