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Test your knowledge of higher education history, famous alumni and universities in pop culture
Leader says that desire to maintain tranquillity can deter islanders from pushing ideas to ‘breaking point’
Book of the week: Lincoln Allison is surprised by the amount of common ground he, as a traditionalist academic, now shares with the ‘innovatory managers’ he once quarrelled with
With careers riding on young scientists’ position in author lists, friction is all too common. A snowballing initiative to list authors’ contributions aims to make sure credit is always given where...
Australia’s teaching and research relationships with China are becoming increasingly overshadowed by rising geopolitical tensions. But the long, deep personal links between academics in the two...
Analysis of rankings data suggests Australia has made ground and without an apparent cost to research quality
The looseness of regulations around collaboration with overseas contacts will intimidate scholars into silence and isolation, says Katarzyna Kaczmarska
Book of the week: Victoria Bateman is impressed by the clear and wide-ranging insights of a Nobel-winning economist and public intellectual
Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be...
Elevated output has not come at cost of excellence, research assessment exercise suggests
As the THE Young University Rankings 2017 highlight rising stars, Jack Grove looks at six institutions – recently launched or still in the planning stages – built on bold notions and innovative...
Preventing unethical behaviour requires regulatory and institutional reforms, as well as lead researchers remaining close to work done in their name, says Futao Huang
Tim Cook will chair the business school’s advisory board
Management academics need to be supported to bring teaching and research on global warming into the mainstream, say Amanda Goodall and Susan Hill
The humanities can embrace certain forms of vocationalism without betraying their essential nature and value, argues Kevin Vanzant