Interview with Amer Zahr
The Palestinian law professor talks about the overlap with his other job: as a stand-up comedian travelling the world talking about the Arab American experience
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France’s spectacle of consultation won’t yield meaningful change
Universities’ vocal opposition to government plans for vastly increased international fees has yielded only minor concessions, says Juliette Torabian
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Private tutoring needs remedial discipline
This growing but still unacknowledged phenomenon in higher education is badly in need of ethical oversight, says an anonymous academic
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The agony of microaggression and discrimination knocked me out
A student’s mysterious accusation of racism saw P. K. Newby removed from her course – and another woman lost from the leaky pipeline
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What universities can do to help pregnant PhD students
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, Selina Sutton explains what universities are doing wrong (and right) when supporting PhD candidates during pregnancy and beyond
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Chicago president: Trump’s free speech order would be a ‘grave error’
Robert Zimmer explains why the US president’s threat to deny federal funds to colleges that fail to protect free speech is a bad idea
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IFS’ English loans report ‘builds pressure to cut tuition fees’
Treasury officials will find it harder to ignore the deficit pressures caused by subsidising lower-earning creative arts students after analysis, researcher argues
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Russian science reforms ‘ambitious but unrealistic’
Experts question whether new National Science Project will have wide impact beyond creating ‘a few islands of research excellence’
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Scrap England’s subject-level TEF, sector groups urge
The teaching excellence framework “needs urgent fixing” at all levels, review is warned
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Irish plan offers European roadmap to improve teaching
Ireland’s efforts to develop the skills of university teachers could be copied elsewhere in Europe, says Terry Maguire and Roisin Donnelly
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Holocaust historians suffer antisemitic abuse at conference
Protesters allegedly called researchers ‘dirty Jews’ and ‘traitors’ in latest intimidation of scholars who emphasise Polish role in the Holocaust
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US-UK alliance to share ‘experiments’ on research commercialisation
New group of eight universities, joined by MIT and Stanford, sees lack of private investment in ‘niche’ university research as a key barrier
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Paul Boyle to be next Swansea v-c after leaving Leicester
Former ESRC chief executive to replace Swansea’s suspended v-c Richard Davies after his ‘planned retirement’