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England’s universities minister says arts and humanities must not be marginalised in wake of Augar review

Even in larger institutions with less disciplinary diversity, Dominic Johnson believes we must find ways to nurture the ‘resistant’ potential of art

Students in different cities simultaneously performing version of play interact at six separate points via technology

The Turner prizewinning artist on being part of the UK’s Black Art movement and promoting the contributions of women

Joshua Harmon’s savage play, Admissions, brings to London its tangled emotions unleashed by diversity policies

Weitermachen Sanssouci may be the first film to tackle the woes of research assessment, casualisation and an obsession with student employability

Institutions struggle to cope with changing student tastes, demographic shifts and the difficulty of scaling up their model

Education reforms designed to improve uptake of science subjects may harm them if creativity is not taught, claims V&A director

Director Tom Inns explains how the institution is coping after fire gutted its iconic Mackintosh building

Glasgow School of Art’s historic home at risk of ‘sudden collapse’

Staff ‘heartbroken’ after second fire at art nouveau masterwork in four years

Move aims to promote traditional Chinese culture through student courses and academic research

The new chancellor of Leeds Trinity University talks about playing a student on Coronation Street, coping with grief and why regional accents are still frowned upon by directors of Shakespeare

Doctoral student takes performance poetry to academic conferences and university council meeting

Public health academic says studies must speak the same language as their subjects

Leading pianist who spent more than four decades at the University of Miami remembered

New work attempts to address aspects of politics difficult to capture in words

Critical acclaim for Admissions, about the experience of a white student and a black student applying to Yale University

University of California, San Diego, rejects student-led petition to drop filmmaker from curriculum over sexual abuse allegations

Two of Britain’s leading academics will present a contemporary take on an iconic television programme

UEA expert dismisses the idea that rehearsal-room romances can serve artistic ends

Tributes paid to the ‘voice of McGill’

Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, funded by £1.7 billion bequest, to fund degree courses in several institutions

Leeds Beckett University researchers are to publish a book exploring how the unheralded British actor became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars

Traditional literary approaches meet the latest stylometric analysis in determining who wrote the Bard’s plays

The Oxford professor of poetry on returning to ‘exotic’ Leeds, why he’s glad he didn’t study English at university, and the future of literature

Exhibition showcasing stories of infertility across the ages – involving suspended uteruses and frogs – is part of the Being Human festival

NTU pro v-c talks about finding out who you are at university, leading a stellar theatre company and why Nottingham should be European Capital of Culture

Peking University joins the top 20 of the Times Higher Education subject table for the first time

Pop songs tend to depict higher education as exclusive and oppressive, finds study

‘Network science’ may help to predict the plot twists in iconic television series, researcher claims

Newcastle fine art posts for duo who specialise in ‘places with dark and complex histories’

Generic courses may not be equipping students with much-needed skills, says British Film Institute

Academics shine light on contemporary research themes in classic book

Outgoing president says the arts are more important than ever in these troubled times

Health and environmental agencies face savage reductions as defence spending soars

Neglected works set to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3

Periodicals need to think through the issues around film-based submissions, says professor

The creative principles that inspire art students can be equally relevant to schools

Pericles Lewis, founding president of Yale-NUS college, on a turbulent time for the liberal arts

Film director Agnieszka Piotrowska’s new book details the challenges of working in the southern African country

UK universities can now ‘feel confident’ in recruiting postgraduate students for 2017-18, says RCUK chair

A trip to the theatre prompts Martin Hall to think afresh about the demonstrations gripping his country’s campuses

Academics and leading figures from London’s rich cultural scene offer their insights to those running major arts organisations around the world

Matthew Reisz offers his tribute to a true polymath

If art has become more academic, might it also be able to refresh other disciplines?

An acclaimed designer who became an academic leader has died

Scholars take an audience back to the movie nights of 50 years ago

UCL event considers the responses of anthropologists and artists to the refugee crisis

Bashir Makhoul reflects on the roots of his creativity and his academic vision for Birmingham City University

Holger Syme’s three-week live-tweet reading brings scathing response from author Sir Brian Vickers

New network aims to help venues to play an even more effective role in the artistic life of their communities and regions

New book considers why some stars burn out and others continue to shine

Matthew Reisz considers why we are still talking obsessively about the playwright 400 years after he shuffled off this mortal coil

Distance learning master’s courses announced by Falmouth pose the question of whether creative skills can be taught online

As the latest film about academia is released, Matthew Reisz considers the portrayal of mathematicians and other scholars in popular culture

Battersea campus will tackle global challenges via linkage of science, technology, design and creative arts

Work on University of Chester archive earns researchers rebuke for laughing in library

Deborah Bull tells Matthew Reisz about the scale of cross-fertilisation between her university and the arts

Landmark documents and artefacts in the history of science and religion go on public view for the first time