Edinburgh’s overseas alumni step up to host disadvantaged students
Graduates arranged workplace visits in major world cities as well as donations to cover travel costs, university alumni relations head tells conference
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‘Ethical internationalisation’ absent from national agendas
International student mobility policies around the world don’t address sustainability or inclusivity, survey finds
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University’s AI-powered crocodile spotter ‘a world first’
AI technology could help save people from the encroaching predators – and vice-versa
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Why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency
Universities have a responsibility to prepare students for an uncertain future, 11 scholars from around the world argue
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Federal data show some easing of US student loan crisis
Decline of for-profits helps, but ethnic minorities and low income students still in trouble
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Asia-Pacific universities missing AI’s full potential, says study
Less than one-third of institutions are utilising technology that could boost innovation and fundraising, report finds
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Caltech wins record $750 million gift to tackle climate change
Donation comes from billionaire producers of plastic-bottled water
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What are you reading? – 26 September 2019
A fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Great State: China and the World, by Timothy Brook
Jonathan Mirsky applauds a bold attempt to take the long view of Chinese history
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The Quality of the Archaeological Record, by Charles Perreault
Susan Greaney has reservations about reducing the discipline’s human interest factor
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Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule, by Nick Yablon
Steven Groarke reflects on the strange process of trying to preserve a historical instant for posterity
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On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair, by Maurice Finocchiaro
Geoffrey Cantor on a pioneering natural philosopher whose conflicts with doctrine became the stuff of myth
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Righting wrongs: that’s what universities are good for
Universities should be engines that drive social well-being and mobility, but this noble purpose can so easily be hampered by inappropriate incentives
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Reliance on foreign PhD students ‘could harm US research’
Data show US has relatively low number of domestic PhD graduates, leaving it reliant on potentially fragile international recruitment
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The week in higher education – 26 September 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media