Brazil leads the way on measuring learning gain at university
Country’s standardised test shows improvements in undergraduates’ general and subject knowledge
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University starts from scratch in exile
One of Ukraine’s most highly regarded institutions has decamped to a new home 100km away to escape fighting in the war-torn region close to Russian border
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Working with the homeless can ‘generate knowledge for social change’
Art can be used to showcase the skills and highlight the plight of the homeless living among us, says Brighton PhD student
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Chinese crackdown on study abroad preparatory programmes
After fears that Chinese students are absorbing ‘Western values’, city authorities attempt to stymie pathway courses to foreign universities
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‘Ominous time’ for French students after support funds are slashed
Student leaders warn cuts to support funds will increase financial pressure on those at university
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Cambridge music job advert strikes discordant note in academia
Academics are divided over whether it was right to use unusually specific criteria when seeking applicants for new post
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Russia 'is safe place to study; stereotype that it’s not is wrong’
Head of Saint Petersburg State University’s Graduate School of Management insists government does not interfere in academic freedom
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Cliff Snaith, 1958-2015
A lecturer in law who played a prominent role in the University and College Union has died.
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Interview with James Byrne
We talk to the poet-academic about the expanding UK presence in international poetry, the value of creative writing courses and the pain of reading online
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LSE to address shortage of research on US domestic politics
Institution’s US Centre seeks to promote multidisciplinary and international research on American policy
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Is ‘conference fatigue’ harming academia?
Depictions of conferences as being dull and exhausting make it ‘almost impossible’ to imagine them as places of intellectual engagement, scholar warns
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Historians make emotional journeys into the past
Researchers are finding powerful ways of resurrecting the elusive emotions of previous eras
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Labour to avoid ‘hypothetical, theological’ debate on fees, says Gordon Marsden
Jeremy Corbyn wants fees scrapped, but shadow higher education minister says policy will not be rushed and must come with broader vision
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Government urged to explain ‘dramatic’ shrinkage in private student numbers
Meanwhile, Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance and Chinese medicine college among those allocated publicly funded places
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The week in higher education – 24/31 December 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press