How to be happy in academia
Academia is often depicted as a calling, but for those who heed it, the joy of doing something they love is often crushed by heavy teaching and admin loads and an unceasing pressure to make a ‘...
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Universities challenge Teaching Excellence Framework ratings
Large swathes of scores missing as OfS publishes first results of newly revamped exercise
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Biden sets graduate earnings test for for-profit college sector
In reviving controversial gainful employment rule, administration also worries traditional institutions by requiring they publicly report their own graduate salary data
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More than 40,000 students drop out of UK university courses
Roughly one in 37 UK students dropped out last year, according to Student Loans Company data
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Generational nostalgia clouds universities’ ‘social licence’
Universities must focus on the student experience, but they also must clarify what students want that experience to be
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Political debates bring ‘blood on streets’ risk for universities
Dangers of universities being seen to shape public opinion highlighted in Pakistan, while Saudi leader warns of ‘slippery slope’
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Alan Johnson: ‘Tuition fees almost brought down Blair government’
As higher education minister in the Blair government, Alan Johnson steered plans for top-up fees of £3,000 through Parliament. As he returns to the sector in a new role, the former postman talks to...
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Almut Gadow: ‘Would free speech act have helped me? I’m not sure’
Former law lecturer suing Open University after claiming she was fired for questioning gender-based changes to curriculum
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Interview with Femke Kaulingfreks
The political philosopher and anthropologist talks about the city that made her, what she learned as a squatter and the importance of dance for revolutions
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Elementary, but not academic: did Sherlock Holmes have a degree?
Arthur Conan Doyle’s maverick detective embraced science but also tapped into suspicion and resentment towards academia, a scholar argues
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Violent students made medieval Oxford a murder hotspot
Homicide rate may have been about 50 times higher than modern-day standards, study suggests
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Female students ‘more likely to struggle with mental health’
Report also finds worse outcomes among white and mixed race students than other ethnicities
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Tohoku head: ‘We can’t be too hasty despite pressure to deliver’
Hideo Ohno urges a level-headed approach as university seeks final green light in high-stakes excellence scheme
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Universities’ failure to instil modern digital literacy threatens democracy
The UK government’s deeply flawed Online Safety Bill reflects widespread ignorance about tech – even within higher education, says Andy Farnell
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The week in higher education – 28 September 2023
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media