Management and governance

Time, money, planning and monitoring are key to improving standards, say Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu 

Barking and Dagenham College loses injunction bid on publication but has also filed judicial review over refusal

President says Ivy League institution is reaping reward of looking past academic silos and selecting staff on ability to tackle external challenge

Head of the embattled MTR subway system steps down from Lingnan

Flagship campus to be led by educator who advised on hiring and previously worked in schools with segregationist past

Spaces can energise or demotivate. Using them to nurture well-being should be seen as an investment not a cost, says Derek Clements-Croome

Leader’s offensive behaviours portrayed as exception for morality-focused institution

As university expands record endowment, comments boost concern over moral clarity

As governments around the world increasingly look to follow US states’ lead and link university funding to the recruitment, retention and employability of students, Paul Basken surveys the results of the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education US College Rankings 2020 for clues about the strategy’s effectiveness 

University study centre ‘positive’ on Islam but not Christianity, objects senior Department of Education official

Hong Kong Baptist University unrest comes as mass demonstrations in city pass 100-day mark, with major impact for universities

Free of Communist-era secretiveness, the new president might be willing to tackle abuses of power on campus, says Ararat Osipian

Higher education institutions urged to change tactics when lobbying for extra funding

Göttingen loses president-elect and chair of search committee after legal challenge 

Recent clashes over Hong Kong and Tiananmen Square have strained universities’ diplomatic sinews, says Roger Smyth

Kevin O’Gorman due to be sentenced on 18 September

对世界400强大学领导层的背景分析显示：校长一职流动性大，缺乏多元性

泰晤士高等教育的分析显示，美国大学校长的任期要比英国或澳大利亚长

大学经常声称要在全球市场上保持竞争力，但他们招聘的校长通常来自国内。随着一些世界顶级大学由海外人士领导，约翰·罗斯(John Ross)探寻是否应该有更多大学效仿

Australian reviewer suggests quality and scale of scholarly output should be key factor in deciding classification

Avondale’s elevation secured on the day reviewer says category should be scrapped

Professor warns scholars’ sense of disempowerment could ‘come to be reflected in the academic product’

Andrew Rhodes says he was called a ‘psychopath’ and blamed for the death of a colleague

But Australian assessor says most growth will be outside universities, and opens door to new category of institution

Union leader calls for Michael Arthur’s successor to rethink institution’s direction

Northwestern head says declining terms of presidents leave serving leaders wondering when they will be pushed out

Poland’s authoritarian government is routinely compared to its widely criticised counterpart in Hungary, and its university reforms sparked a wave of protest by students and academics fearful of political interference. But, one year on, are those concerns being realised? David Matthews travels to Warsaw to find out

Poland’s underperforming university system raises hard questions for those who advocate academic self-government over ‘managerialism’ 

Sydney’s Michael Spence says increasing competition, growing costs and changing expectations mean institutions need to change tack

Leader, who will relinquish post in September 2020, credited with leaving institution in ‘very strong’ position

Pan-continental prosperity will suffer if the UK’s near-absence from the European University project is a sign of things to come, says Martin Paul

New warden of London institution also announces levy on single-use plastic

But academics question the logic of consolidating three institutions in different locations

If universities don’t assert their expertise, demands from ministers and industry will become ever more misguided, says Dawn Freshwater

Martin Keck, who led the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry’s hospital, is being investigated by Munich’s public prosecutor

New Zealand university swaps former prime minister for Sir Anand Satyanand