Russian trolls used campus rows to ‘push partisan hot buttons’
Archive of tweets linked to St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency reveals scale of disinformation attempts around free speech and ‘left bias’ controversies
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The week in higher education – 21 February 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Teaching intelligence: laptop ban made my students truly critical thinkers
Without devices, classes fostered engaged, active learning, writes Ioannis Costas Batlle
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Interview with Manu Kapur
ETH Zurich’s learning sciences expert discusses his own ‘cut-throat’ schooling, why lecturing fails, and how students can fail ‘productively’
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Locations limit new public universities’ impact in India
Regions’ struggles to provide appropriate land and resources is undermining quality, says Debananda Misra
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Australia’s innovation ecosystem needs biodiversity
The government’s new ‘national interest’ test for research proposals is another damaging symptom of short-termism, says Margaret Sheil
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Honorary doctorates are no Muppet show
Some awards are unfortunate, but abolishing this time-honoured practice would throw out the baby with the bathwater, says Richard Willis
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UK government names 16 AI doctoral training centres
One thousand PhD places to be created over next five years
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Video: Research value should be clear to public, says former home secretary
Universities must do a better job of showing how their research results in real-life benefits for society, Charles Clarke has argued
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THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings 2019: results announced
South Korea and China are fastest improving countries in region, as Australia and Japan fail to keep pace
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Video: Producing job-ready graduates ‘isn't universities’ job’
Australia’s chief scientist says universities can’t be expected to respond to the fast-paced changes in labour market demands
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Sheffield Hallam law firm to give students ‘cutting edge’
Law students will undertake work experience at campus-based firm in each year of their degree
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‘National interest’ funding tests ‘bad for science’
Conference hears that nationalist politics could hamper efforts to tackle pandemics
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THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings 2019: a region alive with possibilities
Asia-Pacific institutions are no longer just catching up, they are challenging the best. Phil Baty writes