Walter Munk, 1917-2019
Tributes paid to oceanographer who played key role in Allied war effort during the Second World War
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Universities may have to shut door on elite to hit access targets
English providers will have to enrol fewer privileged students if the sector is not allowed to expand, regulator says
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Western universities feel the strain of China talent tussle
Foreign faculty’s dissatisfaction adds to the lure of Chinese recruitment push
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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