Interview with Lord Waldegrave
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
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
Fleet-footed and innovative, fledgling institutions are well placed to nurture attributes that will be key in future rankings, says Peter Coaldrake
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
Deborah Bull tells Matthew Reisz about the scale of cross-fertilisation between her university and the arts
We discuss discrimination in UK publishing, how universities misunderstand creative writing, and the benefits of arguing with lecturers
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
There*s a tension between Germany*s desire to be in the global elite of higher education while remaining egalitarian. John Morgan reports
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
Loughborough University tops the poll, with its emphasis on student participation, says Jack Grove
GuildHE*s chief executive, a former BIS official, warns that Hefce*s expertise on teaching grant should not be lost
It*s not good enough just to jump on the internationalisation bandwagon 每 we have to measure outcomes, says Uwe Brandenburg
We talk human existence, Cristiano Ronaldo and the problems with Portugal*s higher education system with Lancaster*s new astrophysicist