Gender pay gap: universities are doing better than the BBC (but there is work to do)
Universities are at least aware of the gender pay problem, says Alex Holmes, but there is still work to be done
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Study finds European resistance to teaching in English
Some University of Hamburg academics fear decline in German scholarship, and believe international students should learn German
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Asia's top-ranked university appoints new president
National University of Singapore promotes provost Tan Eng Chye
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PhD student predicts who will die next in Game of Thrones
‘Network science’ may help to predict the plot twists in iconic television series, researcher claims
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I love my administrators! And there should be no ‘conflict’ with academics
There is no ‘hard divide between academics and administrators’, writes Charles Knight in response to criticisms of academic university staff
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Interview with Stephen Hopgood
We talk internationalisation in the face of Brexit, as well as the “alien” concept of fun for academics, with the international relations professor
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Universities fear being shut out of EU innovation push
European Innovation Council mission to create ‘unicorns’ may deprive academics of funding, critics warn
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UK’s student migration data ‘potentially misleading’
Watchdog says data ‘does not bear the weight that is put on it in public debate’
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New world of work: are universities preparing students for future careers?
How can higher education prepare students for jobs that do not even exist yet? asks Christina Slade
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How Romania’s plagiarism hunter took on the prime minister
Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs
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Isabelle Clark-Decès, 1956-2017
A leading anthropologist has died in a fall on a study trip in the Indian Himalayas
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Curtin University prepares to open Dubai campus
Outpost to offer business, media and education courses
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Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative, by Carl Wieman
Even scientists may be unmoved by evidence on how to make teaching better, finds Jennifer Rohn
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Transmaterial Next: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Future, by Blaine Brownell
Richard Joyner enjoys a tour of the novel substances that might give tomorrow its form, including a substance seven times less dense than air
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Subject-level TEF ‘may mislead students’
Bundling of subjects under pilot for future phase of teaching excellence framework may ignore diversity and complexity of many disciplines, says engineering body