Extreme teaching: academics who suffer for students
Academic turned wrestler Dan Mathewson is just one of many educators willing to go the extra mile for scholarship and learning, says Jack Grove
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Opposition weighs debt forgiveness plan for rural teachers
Doubts over impact of Australian scheme after previous fee discount programme was scrapped
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Defence chiefs’ push for more control over research rebuffed
Universities ‘relieved’ at rejection of defence department demands for more control over technology they create
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Universities propose Europe-wide professional body for teaching
Continental version of UK’s former Higher Education Academy among suggestions on how to boost educational standards
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Crimea row draws universities into Russia-West dispute
German-Russian conference cancelled over inclusion of acting rector of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
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TEF means more work but not better teaching, union members say
Only one in 10 respondents to UCU survey welcomes introduction of UK’s teaching assessment
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Threatened scholars: online harassment risks academic freedom
Rebekah Tromble and Patricia Rossini feared for their safety when the conservative online world turned against them last summer
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Joseph Buttigieg, 1947-2019
Tributes paid to ‘greater scholar of the old school’ who was a renowned expert on Antonio Gramsci
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Interview with Rachel Sandison
Glasgow’s new vice-principal for external relations discusses what administrators can offer senior teams in higher education, overcoming impostor syndrome, and why you should never perm your hair
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The week in higher education – 14 February 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Providers urged to set targets for enrolling white working class
White students from lower participation neighbourhoods account for fewer than one in 10 students at more than 70 per cent of English universities, report says
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The West must focus on the challenges of China’s research rise
Fixating on how research misconduct might impact the figures could distract the scholarly world from bigger questions about the future direction and conduct of science, explains Simon Baker
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The diploma disease is becoming a pandemic
The credentialism that the late Ron Dore analysed in his seminal 1976 book has gone global, say Keith Lewin, Angela Little and Alison Wolf