Higher education is about more than giving graduates an earnings boost, but institutions should be able to detail such returns among evidence of their many contributions to society, argues Anna...
Lecturers’ union fears Andrew Scheer is portraying universities as left-wing ‘indoctrination centres’, with potentially damaging consequences
Algorithms may simply lead to ‘self-fulfilling prophecies’ and do not give reasons for their decisions, Oxford researcher warns
Gender studies is becoming a dangerous field in Latin America and Europe. This has implications for the fight for gender equality everywhere, says Sally Gimson
Nobel laureate astrophysicist Brian Schmidt discusses the notion of ‘genius’ with rising star physicist Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
‘Systemic barriers’ hinder universities’ efforts to tackle the territory’s major problems, says report
Greater links between universities, the government, entrepreneurs and charities will help tackle social inequalities in Hong Kong, writes Jeff Streeter
Encouraging Chinese students to access non-Chinese media sources can ease fears of systematic bias, says Tao Zhang
Shân Wareing reflects on how to start and conduct an ‘institutional conversation’ about race, in a Hepi essay
France’s president responded to the gilets jaunes movement with a surprise plan to abolish the grande école ENA, reigniting debate about the country’s intensely hierarchical higher education system....
John Gilbey enjoys a quirky tour of the communications tool we seem unable to do without
Steven Rose is unconvinced by an ambitious attempt to explain consciousness
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Academic also claims European Commission officials told him UK coordinators would be kicked out in event of no-deal Brexit
A collection of assessments and reappraisals of Noam Chomsky’s celebrated essay ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ by the author and other scholars shows the activist academic to be as provocative...