Adonis v Willetts: a fiery debate that didn’t disappoint
Chris Parr picks through some of the highlights from the tuition fees debate between David Willetts and Andrew Adonis
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Terrorism forces internationalisation efforts ‘back to basics’
Higher education institutions in Turkey and Belgium report decline in staff and student exchanges following attacks
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Global higher education a ‘massive business’ serving ‘the 1%’
Dishonest to claim that internationalisation is for the common good when it reaches so few people, consultant says
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Universities ‘failed to help’ losers of globalisation
Higher education institutions are partly to blame for the hostility they now face, says US vice-provost
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THE debate: Andrew Adonis and David Willetts
Lord Willetts and Lord Adonis go head to head in this video debate, tackling UK political issues from tuition fees to vice-chancellor pay levels
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Quality, not money, should drive mergers, says funding expert
Unions should be seen as investments in teaching and research quality rather than cost-saving exercises, advises EUA governance specialist
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Europe ‘must improve’ credential recognition for refugees
Quality assurance professionals call for system to verify refugees’ education credentials before ‘next crisis’
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How will Brexit shape the European research landscape?
Holly Else considers how the withdrawal of one of the biggest players in European research could change science on the Continent, and likely national winners and losers
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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World, by Erika Rappaport
A. W. Purdue on a study that views the drink as the centrepiece of a new international economy
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Victorian Pain, by Rachel Ablow
The discomforts felt and described by five writers form the focus of this literary study, writes Lennard Davis
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The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart, by Mitchell Cohen
An ambitious study that sets musical history within the political context of the birth of the modern state never manages to sing, says Mark Berry
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Fifty-fold growth in English-taught bachelor’s courses in Europe
Study reveals that there are now 2,900 English-medium undergraduate programmes in continental Europe
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The week in higher education – 14 September 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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V-c pay: Are vice-chancellors worth their salaries?
Last week, the UK’s universities minister threatened to fine institutions that pay their v-cs more than the prime minister without a strong justification. We present three perspectives on the debate
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Gendering Modernism: A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon, by Maria Bucur
Tracey Warr on a broad survey that outlines women’s exclusion from an artistic movement