India’s long road to higher education eminence
The quality of Indian higher education outside a few elite institutions is notoriously poor, and a slew of initiatives aimed at addressing it have made little impact so far. Simon Baker analyses the...
The quality of Indian higher education outside a few elite institutions is notoriously poor, and a slew of initiatives aimed at addressing it have made little impact so far. Simon Baker analyses the...
What are university leaders and chief technology officers doing to meet future challenges?
Unwieldy bureaucracy, infrastructure challenges and scant funding all hold back innovation in Indian higher education. Philip Altbach and Eldho Mathews assess the country’s current strategies for...
Six early career researchers reflect on their experiences
Simon Baker examines the rise of China as a research nation and the worries this provokes among some Westerners
What single change to university practice would have the most positive and far-reaching consequences? Eight academics and thinkers give us their views
Jack Grove explores current strategies for widening participation in higher education, and finds out why improving access remains a huge challenge across the world, despite growing university...
Sector fails to self-regulate its ‘wicked issues’ The article on the Office for Students (“‘Quick with the rod’, but is the OfS up to the job?”, News, 24 January) identifies the inbuilt tension...
Analysis reveals that, when medicine is taken out of the equation, collaborations are thin on the ground
Conducting clinical trials during an epidemic for the first time, researchers fast-tracked the creation of a vaccine for Ebola, but not before 11,000 people had died
Simon Gaskell and Adrian Collette explain why proper engagement is an important driver of institutional performance, teaching and research
Matthew Reisz examines the pros and cons of using film as a form of public engagement