Is abolishing tuition fees regressive? It depends how it鈥檚 done
Replacing England鈥檚 tuition fee system with a cheaper and fairer alternative is not as difficult as many claim, says Andrew Adonis
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Universities are rising from ruins of war
Kurdistan shows that post-conflict countries can build a thriving higher education sector by working with foreign partners, says Dlawer Ala鈥橝ldeen
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Is self-promotion hurting scholarship?
Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy
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American Niceness: A Cultural History, by Carrie Tirado Bramen
Book of the week: Behind a veneer of amiability, Randy Malamud finds discord, cruelty and a 鈥榗ultural charade鈥
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What are you reading? 鈥 17 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Birds, bees, trees and other queer causes
Matthew Reisz wonders how nature鈥檚 polymorphous perversity will win support for the political cause of sexual equality
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University financial health check 2017: future prospects?
UK universities face uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and the TEF, the future for tuition fees and a pensions deficit. Which institutions have the financial clout and diversified portfolios to...
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All that remains: life as a forensic anthropologist
Dame Sue Black鈥檚 pioneering work has taken her to war zones and the aftermath of natural disasters. She explains the scientific rigour required in the field
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Any port in a storm
While Laurie Taylor is away, guest holiday columnist Christopher Bigsby offers a tragic tale of an errant email, a Classics professor and a vengeful vice-chancellor
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World in brief 鈥 17 August 2017
Higher education news from around the globe
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Plan for the unimaginable
Universities used to be thought unsinkable, but the unthinkable 鈥 an institution going to the wall 鈥 is now a genuine, if yet remote, prospect
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UK must fight to stay in Erasmus+
Paul James Cardwell suggests that 鈥淯K students 鈥榤ay be barred from Erasmus after Brexit鈥欌 (Opinion, 10 August). He is right to insist on the value of Erasmus+ exchanges for UK students, in particular...
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Read me first
Re 鈥淩esearch in social science may well be doomed unless we act鈥 (Opinion, 10 August). Why not simply say that less research should be funded until more of it has been read properly? The main problem...