Talking leadership: David Garza on enticing top scholars to Mexico
Monterrey Institute of Technology’s president says it is setting aside £46 million for international hires to compete with the global standard of living
Monterrey Institute of Technology’s president says it is setting aside £46 million for international hires to compete with the global standard of living
Farah Karim-Cooper – one of the UK’s few ethnic minority Shakespeare professors – reflects on being an outsider in a discipline not known for its non-white faces and ponders how diversity can be...
Pretoria’s new vice-chancellor says ‘co-creating’ institutional cultures was critical for a diverse academy
Japan ranks low for gender equality and Japanese women have long complained that the domestic demands on them, combined with universities’ unwillingness to compensate for them, make academic careers...
With university set to become a near-universal expectation for high-school graduates, the separate silos in which K12 and higher education have traditionally operated are increasingly being seen as ...
The pandemic has exposed some anglophone universities’ financial over-reliance on overseas students. But if internationalisation takes a step back in the coming years, how much will be lost...
Nine senior leadership summits, plus range of regional and thematic forums and seminars, planned
Until the pandemic forced teaching to go online almost overnight, universities were widely considered impervious to major change. But if one age-old practice can be flipped on its head, why not...
Female representation in Asian academia’s senior ranks is low by international standards. There are some encouraging signs that the situation is being addressed, but might the disproportionate effect...
The two countries had similar tertiary enrolments in the late 1980s but literacy rates and policy strategy set them on very different paths, says Alan Ruby
The ongoing wave of student protests is testing the diplomacy skills of the territory’s vice-chancellors to the limits. But is it possible to keep the peace on campus and maintain good relations with...
As governments around the world increasingly look to follow US states’ lead and link university funding to the recruitment, retention and employability of students, Paul Basken surveys the results of...
The European Research Council’s president-elect discusses his polymath career, the tragedy that changed his research, ultramarathons and jazz
Dutch universities are conspicuously and consistently successful. Yet their funding is declining and their embrace of internationalism has put them on a collision course with the populist right. John...
Carol Christ, new leader of the Californian university, also plans ‘free speech year’ for students and staff to engage with topic