US campuses chafing under Covid restrictions
Once a conservative rallying cry, calls to ease protections spread in academia as fast-moving Omicron variant appears less threatening
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UK’s lead on international mobility in Europe ‘shrinking’
Data suggest that European mobility and recruitment from Asia are rapidly diversifying campuses on the continent
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A physicist as minister could prompt a quantum leap in Dutch HE
Robbert Dijkgraaf's appointment to the Netherlands’ new government has got academics very excited, says Michèle Wera
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World University Rankings 2023: time to submit your data
Universities can now participate in the next edition of our global league table
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The UK has already met its overseas recruitment target. Time for another
With concerted efforts, the UK could attract far more than 600,000 international students to its shores, says James Pitman
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The academic world must react to the Pillar of Shame’s removal
Hong Kong University’s legally dubious dismantling of the monument to Tiananmen Square should provoke global outrage, says Phil C.W. Chan
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Sacked lecturer who university refused to reinstate awarded £100K
Union accuses Huddersfield of ‘cold and calculated’ decision not to give Jonathan Duxbury his old job back
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‘Stupid’ squabble over Paris name ‘sets France back 15 years’
Decision by top court means another rebrand will be needed to help outsiders understand who’s who among republic’s reassembled universities
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Safeguards on laboratory-modified viruses ‘inadequate’
Experts warn of dangerous abandonment of long-standing ethical limits in pursuits of human vaccines and wildlife management
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Australia’s new research direction is a road to nowhere
Pushing the ARC to focus on commercialisation neglects the complex interdependency between basic and applied research, says Duncan Ivison
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Do we really need deans and provosts?
The pandemic may just push US colleges and universities to do what they should have done a long time ago: reorganise, says Michael Hadjiargyrou
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Allan Rechtschaffen, 1927-2021
Tributes paid to ‘single-minded’ researcher who could tell you anything ‘you ever needed to know about sleep’
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Be ready for anything
Higher education looks to be beset by any number of challenges in 2022, not least more Covid disruption. Resilience may again be the year’s watchword
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On Diversity, by Russell Jacoby
Michael Marinetto enjoys a bold attempt to challenge one of the great pieties of our time
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Keeping their heads down: how are Afghan students faring in the West?
Students who escaped the chaos in Kabul are beginning their second terms at overseas universities. But can they concentrate on their studies amid trauma, worries about their families and uncertainty...