John Fletcher obituary
Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett
The one change that worked: I found an escape from online life by swapping my home office for the library
I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes – information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books ...
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
Bad Education by Matt Goodwin review – a lapsed liberal’s war on ‘woke’ lecture
The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuance
Joyce Crick obituary
Other lives: Lecturer in German literature at the University of London and translator of works by Freud
Are studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?
Not only will literary criticism wither, but we risk losing the campus novel entirely
Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh
Chris Williams obituary
Other lives: Historian who specialised in research on Welsh radical traditions and edited Richard Burton’s diaries
Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA
Booker-winning author says course ‘shouldn’t be seen as dispensable’ as university seeks to cut 130 academic jobs
Harvard will remove binding made of human skin from 1800s book
University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent
Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure
More than £3,000 raised to keep the Student – founded in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh University – going
Professor Hakim Adi shortlisted for prestigious Wolfson award
The nomination for Adi,the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago
Sarfraz Manzoor says he will use new role to make Luton ‘cool’
Greetings from Bury Park author announces initiatives to ‘bang drum’ for town as he is named chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire
The big idea: do we need to dismantle the literary canon?
The temptation to chuck out the old is strong, but can only be part of the answer
I was overwhelmed by shame when I quit grad school. Now I’m a quitting guru
I thought that dropping out made me a failure, but it was the making of me as a journalist and writer, says Dr Julia Keller, the author of Quitting: A Life Strategy