The week in higher education – 28 April 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Student-centred education: a philosophy most unkind
Well-meaning initiatives that prioritise student satisfaction over educational objectives deny students access to the type of rich learning experience that universities were designed for, argue...
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BTECs offer ‘critical alternative route to HE’
Westminster government moves to defund the vocational qualifications come under scrutiny in Hepi paper
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For gender pay equality, universities must let social scientists see the data
A mixture of privacy concerns and managerialism prevents universities from making good use of their research expertise, says Sunil Mitra Kumar
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28 April 2022 digital edition
Horn of plenty: Is chasing unicorns the best way to commercialise research?
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Impact Rankings 2022: results announced
Australian university tops fourth edition of global ranking measuring institutions’ social and economic impact
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Impact Rankings 2022: hundreds of universities have SDG courses
Institutions from over 100 countries offer dedicated courses on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, THE data show
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Impact Rankings 2022: table information
A university’s final score in the overall table is calculated by combining its score in SDG 17 with its top three scores out of the remaining 16 SDGs. SDG 17 accounts for 22 per cent of the overall...
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Sustainability is encoded in the DNA of Hokkaido University
Building a sustainable society has been a mission of the Japanese institution for almost 150 years, but the task is not yet done. Atsushi Yokota explores its progress to date
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UK and India ‘should learn from US’ on researcher mobility
Government must do more to fast-track visas for talent, says top Indian official
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UK universities split on return to in-person exams
Some institutions embracing in-person assessment again after lifting of Covid-19 regulations
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English entry bar would hit poorest students hard, ministers told
Half of free school meal-eligible pupils in London – and 40 per cent of black school-leavers – would be caught by cap
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US universities used recruitment tool ‘to target white students’
Naviance, available to nearly half of nation’s high school students, admits years of Caucasian filtering for campuses building candidate lists
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Women-only universities ‘fill inclusion gaps’ left elsewhere
But co-author of Unesco report says need for them could wane with better inclusion elsewhere
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How I, a woman of colour, built a track record without public funding
Multiple small grants from trusts and charities can lend research projects credibility, opening bigger doors down the line, says Sophia Labadi