The week in higher education – 21 January 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Reopening of international study opportunities looms large as Covid-19 continues to dominate news agenda
Nine senior leadership summits, plus range of regional and thematic forums and seminars, planned
Once-in-a-generation review aims to massify a massified system, just as students question the cost-benefit equation
Orwell Prize nominated writer on decolonising medicine, being inspired by her father and her experiences working as a sexual and reproductive health registrar in the NHS
Helping students learn is core to universities’ missions, but the buzz phrase ‘student success’ has come to designate something more. Exactly what, though, remains contested, and its pursuit has...
Covid-era terror of a decimation in international income has proved unfounded, but investment yields continue to fluctuate wildly. Ahead of the publication of Australia’s landmark new Universities...
Professors say state’s recent track record of passing laws targeting transgender people and DEI programmes means Tampa is not a ‘safe’ location for annual event
Minister announces new measures during Westminster Hall debate called in response to bereaved parents’ petition
In high-profile instance of Trump administration crackdown, former Harvard nanoscientist gets leniency as he faces incurable cancer
As Australia and Canada lead the overall table, THE data show universities worldwide grappling with the affordable housing crisis and demands to divest away from fossil fuels
The statistical literacy professor talks about her working-class upbringing and her passion for helping young people break barriers
As we enter REF submission year, Nicholas Stern and David Sweeney urge universities to broaden their conception of a good submission
Georgia State’s transformation of student outcomes has been praised by Barack Obama and Bill Gates. Jack Grove talks to its president, M. Brian Blake, about the trailblazing institution’s incredible...
The ‘teenage’ regulator has a toxic relationship with universities owing to its uncompromising approach and its alleged unwillingness to listen – except to Conservative ministers. But should vice-...