The only way is up: are towers the future for city campuses?
IE University in Madrid wanted to grow so, in a crowded city, it decided to build upwards
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Sallie McFague, 1933-2019
Tributes paid to a pioneering scholar who helped ‘push the boundaries of how we think and feel theologically to address the needs of the world’
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Germany mulls extra research funding for committee-burdened women
Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression
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Social sciences miss out on climate change research funding
Just 5 per cent of funding over past two decades went on studies examining how to change human behaviour to help tackle crisis, researchers find
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Knowledge exchange framework starts this year before funding link
Participation in assessment likely to be a condition of receiving Research England funding from 2020-21
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Anthony McClaran swaps Australia for St Mary’s v-c job
Catholic institution hires TEQSA chief executive who led QAA and Ucas
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Is standing up for expertise a fool’s errand?
In an era of anti-expert populism, it is more important than ever to stand up for scientific truth. But it is also harder, coming with a high risk of personal attack. Anna McKie speaks to those who...
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Careers intelligence: surviving academic social media’s dark side
As social media becomes an increasing presence in scholarly life, Mark Carrigan looks at how to mitigate its negatives
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Box-ticking is the inevitable result of top-down impositions
Overseeing an Athena SWAN application convinced an anonymous academic that if tasks cannot be properly resourced, they should not be attempted at all
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The week in higher education – 16 January 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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PM says UK ‘will continue to participate’ in Erasmus+
‘No threat’ to UK involvement in European Union’s student mobility programme, Boris Johnson tells MPs
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My experience with the Home Office doesn’t bode well for foreign academics
Poor treatment of migrant academics, especially after Brexit, will severely hurt UK universities, writes Asiya Islam
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Competition drives researchers to counselling – and exit door
Poll of 4,000 researchers reveals half have sought or wanted help for mental health problems, and four in 10 are victims of bullying or harassment
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Protests spur global interest in Hong Kong studies
Academics are taking advantage of their freedom to launch new research, but question how long this will last
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‘Language death’ in Denmark blamed on ‘humanities bashing’
Academics estimate that 32 language degree programmes have closed in the past five years