University financial health check 2016
Which universities have dealt best with uncapped student numbers and uncertainty over international income? John Morgan reports
Which universities have dealt best with uncapped student numbers and uncertainty over international income? John Morgan reports
David Matthews considers a flurry of ‘threats’ to the conveyor belt of arrivals and what Western campuses can do to shockproof their systems
Book of the week: Blacks were key agents in the international battle against slavery, Olivette Otele writes
The former Cabinet minister on listening to jazz pianist Art Tatum, ambitions to be Stirling Moss, and how we shouldn’t view all politicians as crooks
Experts in everything from accountancy to China and spirituality to skills strategies appointed fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences
Fleet-footed and innovative, fledgling institutions are well placed to nurture attributes that will be key in future rankings, says Peter Coaldrake
Sector experts variously predict benefits and damage from lifting the lid on who earns what
University games are worth standing up for, say Vince Mayne and Ian Diamond
We talk to the professional golfer about leadership and the possibility of swapping golf clubs for research after retirement
Deborah Bull tells Matthew Reisz about the scale of cross-fertilisation between her university and the arts
There’s a tension between Germany’s desire to be in the global elite of higher education while remaining egalitarian. John Morgan reports
We discuss discrimination in UK publishing, how universities misunderstand creative writing, and the benefits of arguing with lecturers
Loughborough University tops the poll, with its emphasis on student participation, says Jack Grove
We talk to the glaciologist about how it feels to have a glacier named after him and the chances of a catastrophic sea-level rise resulting from climate change
It’s not good enough just to jump on the internationalisation bandwagon – we have to measure outcomes, says Uwe Brandenburg