Chinese universities grow career services to tackle unemployment
Sector must meet demands of students who increasingly expect help landing a job, scholar says
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‘Serious shortcomings’ in EU research careers observatory plan
Learned societies question quality of data, mismatch to EU goals, choice of indicators and ignorance of social and political contexts used by planned monitoring tool
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Wolverhampton’s recaptured purpose belies ‘rip-off’ degrees rhetoric
Such talk replaces pride of place with ‘know your place’. But if you want to see levelling up made flesh, come and meet our graduates, says John Raftery
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Capping ‘low-quality’ courses is not what England needs
The government would do much better to help educational institutions understand and prepare for future labour market shifts, says Rosalind Gill
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20 July 2023 digital edition
Broken promises: Is Justin Trudeau failing Canadian science?
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OfS presses on with plan to bill universities for investigations
English regulator rejects most criticism of proposals, but acknowledges that it should consider an institution’s ability to pay before it finalises costs
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English sector ‘not out of the woods’ on grade inflation
Half of firsts cannot be explained by changes in prior attainment or choice of subject, sector regulator claims, although this is down from Covid-era peak
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Is Justin Trudeau failing the Canadian science test?
Canada’s Liberal government swept to power eight years ago promising to undo the damage inflicted by the previous Harper regime. However, after a big early funding spike for basic research, there is...
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Ex-OfS head: ‘more transparency needed’ on research-teaching link
Single department or minister should cover both teaching and research elements of universities, says Nicola Dandridge
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No Westminster government will raise fee cap, universities warned
Despite increasing agitation over fee freeze, politics around student support seen as weighing against lifting of cap
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Female faculty aid US students with confidences
At risk to their careers, women teaching sciences shown in nationwide survey to be more willing to admit struggles with depression, poverty and attainment
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Belgian university introduces universal basic research funding
Over 1,000 professors will get €30,000 a year to spend as they please as a remedy to the low success rates of national and international competitions
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The week in higher education – 20 July 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Are student demands for higher grades threatening standards?
As students in many countries receive their final degree marks amid perennial concerns about grade inflation, three scholars reflect on their experiences of being pressured to mark more leniently,...
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Interview with Joan Donovan
The research director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy talks about growing up in an environment of aggressive scepticism, and then battling an academic culture...