Chair of England’s post-18 review says £7,500 fee a cap a fair deal after ‘windfall’ years and that universities in financial trouble are guilty of ‘bad management’
Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in
The Wolfson History Prize winner talks about her work on the failure to bring to justice the perpetrators of Nazi atrocities, and the connection between her family history and research
Teesside’s Leading Roles project uses stage techniques to train university staff in handling ‘challenging conversations’ and conflict, write Sharon Paterson, Paul Hessey and Mike Rogers
Experts divided over whether centre-left but anti-immigration Social Democratic Party will continue, scrap or enhance current policy restricting foreign student numbers
Critics warn against equating a course’s value with its graduate earnings, of threats to universities’ autonomy on funding decisions and damage to research
Running a university and composing music both involve ‘strategic planning’, says Roderick Watkins, composer of the ‘very dark, very violent’ Juniper Tree