MIT dean: Nobel prize would give teaching the prestige it needs
High-quality tuition must be given the same recognition as cutting-edge research, says founder of open-access learning platform
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Don’t be distracted from equality challenges, universities told
Need to meet demands of technological advances should not overshadow long-standing problems of gender and race, conference told
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XJTLU is poised to lead education reform in China
After 12 years, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University has begun the second phase of operations and is intent on influencing China's higher education system, says executive president Youmin Xi
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THE podcast: assessing Gulf ‘success’ on female STEM enrolment
Members of the editorial team discuss THE data showing trends in global STEM enrolments
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Books interview: Sarah Kinkel
The author and history professor discusses the 18th-century British Navy, her love of science fiction and gifting books as a public service
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Oxbridge student experience ‘way ahead’ of rest of Russell Group
Hepi survey data spanning six years suggest students do not rate other members of mission group very differently from UK universities overall
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Fresh anger over UK visa regime as scholar forced to leave Oxford
Home Office decision to decline a visa for postgraduate researcher’s 22-month-old baby sparks anguish at laboratory ‘struggling’ to recruit
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Multibillion-pound fee for UK to stay in EU research debated
Task ahead for universities to show return if country is to be part of next framework programme
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The week in higher education – 24 May 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy
The philosopher on coming face-to-face with death in Bangladesh, why academics don’t like him, and Brexit
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Stanley Falkow, 1934-2018
Tributes paid to microbiologist whom many considered worthy of a Nobel prize
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Career advice: how to work a 37-hour week
Jenny Pickerill explains how she balances her workload
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‘Progressive stacking’ leads to a wobbly form of equality
Calling on women and non-white people to speak first in class has a noble aim, but there are better alternatives, says James Kierstead
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Curtailing overseas scholars’ right to strike undermines their academic citizenship
The new UK home secretary must reinstate workers’ right to participate in industrial action regardless of national origin, says Shreya Atrey
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For bright post-Brexit horizons, the UK needs a warm front
As the EU’s proposals for its Horizon Europe research funding framework near publication, the UK must commit to playing a full role, says Paul Boyle