Student arrested after academic among three shot dead at Erasmus
Jurgen Damen named as lecturer killed in attack at Rotterdam teaching hospital
Jurgen Damen named as lecturer killed in attack at Rotterdam teaching hospital
Hong Kong and the Netherlands lead new THE metrics measuring research strength, excellence and influence
Australia is top-performing nation for first time in five years, while the United Arab Emirates is on the rise
The research director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy talks about growing up in an environment of aggressive scepticism, and then battling an academic culture...
A court has sentenced 18 elite fraternity members to fines and community service for roles in reckless ritual
Preventing expert reviewers from reading applicants’ CVs could damage Netherlands’ hard-won research excellence, warns senior researcher
French institution tops table for first time as country’s consolidation strategy appears to pay off
For young universities, it’s not about where they’re from but where they’re going, says Ellie Bothwell
Expert in online education long before it became fashionable discusses what can be learned from the gaming industry, common mistakes innovators make and why her own undergraduate experience was an...
Capping course intakes causes student surges elsewhere, university president says, calling for ‘urgent’ political action to stem international flows
Inspectors cite concerns about housing quality and accessibility, but say higher first-year rates may simply be because students ‘do not feel at home’
‘If you are worried about the quality of online teaching, worry about the teaching part,’ says Clay Shirky
Large-scale, transdisciplinary networks of universities represent the next phase of internationalisation, says Patrick Prendergast
Research that is neither rigorous nor insightful serves no one, say Stefan Stremersch, Nuno Camacho and Russell Winer
A push to end the habit of assessing researchers by their publication metrics is gaining momentum. But are journal impact factors really as meaningless as is claimed? And will requiring scientists to...