Combined courses ‘improve computer science diversity’
Joint honours approach attracts more women and ethnic minorities to field, says Northeastern dean
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Data bites: South East England dominates Horizon 2020 funding
Figures demonstrate the power of the ‘golden triangle’ in bidding for EU cash
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China block on scholar leaving ‘disheartening’ for academic exchange
Government bar on Chongyi Feng returning to Australia increases doubts over country's openness
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What are you reading? – 6 April 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption, by Joshua Holden
Keeping the algorithms that encrypt our data secure is crucial, says Noel-Ann Bradshaw /*-->*/
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Career advice: how to write the perfect abstract for your article
Summarising your journal paper effectively helps to ensure that it reaches the right audience
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Hostility to ECJ raises doubts over UK’s future in EU research
V-c warns that European Court of Justice role in grant disputes makes UK association ‘difficult to see’
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Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists expand into UK and Israel
Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators
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The week in higher education – 6 April 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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University autonomy in Europe ‘hit by austerity’
Warnings that state involvement in funding decisions is harming institutions’ abilities to compete
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Derrick Ball, 1930-2017
Academic whose expertise spanned economics and chemistry remembered
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Interview with Joanna Read
The noted theatre director talks about dispelling drama school preconceptions, reducing tuition fees and negotiating with local gangs
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Donald Trump will save universities from themselves
US academics might find a warm word for the president if he forces universities to become financially disciplined and sustainable, say Jose Garcia, Don Barwick and Joseph Garcia