UK gains ground on US in educating world leaders
Changes in heads of state mean fewer US alumni at global top table, but its figures are bolstered by Stanford graduate Rishi Sunak
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‘Significant declines’ for US and UK in academic freedom ranking
Drops in campus integrity and freedoms to research and teach leave academic powerhouses sitting below Bosnia and Benin in global rankings
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US edge over UK on educating world leaders ‘now unbeatable’
Annual Hepi index seeks to track key measure of soft power
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US college trustees must push back on tuition fee increases
Too many trustees misunderstand or forget their fiduciary responsibilities and become co-opted by institutional presidents, says James Koch
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Charitable giving to US universities fell slightly last year
Annual survey attributes decline to pandemic and large Bloomberg donation the previous year, but says Black Lives Matter movement ‘likely played a positive role’ in philanthropy
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Will a Biden administration solve US higher education’s problems?
The vast majority of university staff and students are hoping that Joe Biden’s predicted win comes to pass in next week’s presidential election. But with the nation’s finances reeling from Covid-19...
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Investors, not students, should bear the vast upfront costs of US tuition
Selling income-contingent stakes in the future earnings of graduates is the best way to address the student debt crisis, says Paul Oslington
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Half of US scientists drop out of academia within five years
Study based on fields of astronomy, ecology and robotics suggests huge drop in duration of scholarly careers
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China could overtake US on research impact by mid-2020s
Trends analysis shows end of ‘US hegemony’ in research may not be far off
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In the general election students told us a lot – and we must listen to them
Vice-chancellor and chief executive of the University of Worcester, David Green, offers his thoughts on the HE landscape post-election, and what needs to change
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Research scores of US top brass fail to shine
The ‘relatively modest’ research reputations of some senior US university leaders make their pay ‘grotesquely unmerited’, claims author of report
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US dominates Shanghai Jiao Tong world rankings
US universities continue to dominate the upper echelons of world rankings, taking 17 of the top 20 spots in the Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking.
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Recession hits US private fundraising, but others do better
As alumni donations to US universities plummet, Canada and Asia forge ahead. Hannah Fearn writes
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Rising costs set to change the face of US higher education
As funding for public universities falls, poorer students will feel the pinch. John Gill reports
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Academic exodus as scholars desert Israel's promised land for US
Policy 'breakdown' sees a quarter of academics head to America, study says. John Gill reports