Singapore universities ditch ‘competition for the sake of it’
Collaboration between top institutions expected to help attract international researchers and improve student outcomes

Collaboration between top institutions expected to help attract international researchers and improve student outcomes

If 2025 was about establishing stability, in 2026 our focus must turn to building for the future, says UUK president Malcolm Press


Universities’ increasing reliance on visa applicants from within the country has so far failed to dent profitability

What kind of experience isn’t lived? Are all systems really ecosystems? Why do we keep inventing pointless new jargon, asks Ron Iphofen

Professors from UCL and Plymouth Marjon University receive damehoods, while four vice-chancellors commended

Marine ecologist remembered for ‘unwavering commitment’ to students and work advocating for science and research

Joint projects require academics to ‘show up and feel a bit uncomfortable’, argues theatre maker who is taking up a new position at the University of London

It might be an extreme example but elsewhere, too, universities are being reimagined as state safeguards, say Maguatcher Jeremie and Chen Bateer

New city-like development planned in Kuala Lumpur’s suburbs complete with fledgling institution headed up by former Nottingham Malaysia CEO

Trump turmoil, financial strife and shifts in international student enrolment all feature heavily in annual round-up of stories that most engaged THE readers

Incoming president pledges to slash government spending but remains quiet on other higher education issues

Interim leaders’ early departure the latest snag in controversial commission’s troubled birth

Pierre Legrand’s ‘offensive’ attack on a law textbook has led to calls for retraction and a journal apology but he insists his robust criticism was fair