We can do more to fix vocational education’s image problem
Degree apprenticeships are helping to alter perceptions of earn-as-you-learn courses, but universities must demonstrate their value to students and employers, says Jane Turner
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Trump free speech threat contradicts facts, allies and himself
US president’s vow to tie research funds to unfettered campus debate is short on details and advocates
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Warning over ‘biased results’ of industry-funded research
Europe-wide temperature check of university-business interactions unearths concerns over loss of curiosity-led research
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Botched email reveals names of university staff facing redundancy
Winchester apologises after putting address details in ‘to’ or ‘cc’ fields, not ‘bcc’
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Reading staff blame languages cuts on ‘misguided vanity projects’
Staff hit out at ‘financial mismanagement’ as university announces plans to cut roughly a third of modern languages jobs
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Restricting student loan access is a clumsy way to solve overrecruitment
Ministers are right to question student recruitment practices in some universities, but restricting loan access to those who fail to hit three Ds at A level would be a retrograde step, says Tom...
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Privileged students fill majority of degree apprenticeship places
Proportion of places taken by disadvantaged students shrinks as level of qualification rises
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International Women’s Day: will the drive for gender equity get past institutional resistance?
On International Women’s Day, Jocalyn Clark and Imogen Coe ask why universities have been so slow to adopt meaningful change to improve gender representation
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Progress of female leadership stalls in world’s top universities
Analysis of THE World University Rankings data shows no progress in number of women leading highest-ranked institutions
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‘Up to half’ of European papers to be open access under Plan S
Clarivate warns cost of article processing charges set to fall on funders
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Russell Group fears impact of post-Brexit visa salary threshold
Member universities would be unable to fill 60,000 jobs from abroad, and face increased costs too, says report
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Leadership intelligence: how to deal with incompetence
Difficult conversations about student complaints and colleagues’ underperformance will test the skills and judgement of senior academic staff, says Robert MacIntosh
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He said, she said – but he said it much more often
Male voices are over-represented in our pages. We know that we have more to do to better reflect all those in the sector, but we need women’s help
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The week in higher education – 7 March 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media