Kornbluth sets collaborative agenda for MIT
At formal inauguration, former Duke provost promises new interdisciplinary push, plus sees room to protect climate while keeping Koch funding
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Has Covid changed everything in education? Don’t bet on it
For all the talk about the digital revolution, the demand for in-person education is stronger than ever, says Nick Hillman
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Excitement in the challenge
Engineering and Physical Sciences All efforts to ensure that science and technology can contribute to national well-being rely for their success on one vital factor; namely the inherent excitement of...
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A capital injection would protect the UK’s risky HE funding model
In the absence of domestic fee hikes and full-cost grants, world-class facilities will help maintain international student flows, says Ian Walmsley
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Liberal arts teaching should go interdisciplinary
Basing teaching around the fundamental challenges faced by society will benefit both the humanities and humanity itself, says Doug Haynes
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Universities need to work together to make an impact on climate change
Emily Shuckburgh and Alyssa Gilbert, co-chairs of the COP26 Universities Network, draw the lessons from two years of collective effort
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Higher education is entrenching limited thinking on climate change
Students are not being pushed to consider imaginative ideas that would truly tackle global warming, argues Peter Sutoris
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Global HE as we know it has forever changed
Universities will have to rethink online provision, while the social and economic factors of the pandemic will affect demand, writes Simon Marginson
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Russia scholars split over sanctions work
Academics who act as court experts in return for up to £20,000 are under a ‘corrupting influence’ claims one Russia analyst, while another expert says fees help pay his mortgage
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Assessment damages everyone involved. I’m giving all my students As
Grading fills students with anxiety and academics with guilt. It is the enemy of real education. Time for a rebellion, says Andy Farnell
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Why and how to debate climate change
Students need to develop their own well-informed positions on the difficult questions raised by climate change without being told what to think, says Mike Hulme
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Universities cannot flag in the pursuit of change for good
This tumultuous year has shown universities can adapt rapidly and radically, but the reimagining mustn’t pause amid continuing disruptive pressures
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Cambridge’s blueprint points the way for UK investment zones
With the right policies in place, the university can repeat the past 25 years’ economic return within the next decade, says Anthony Freeling
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The UK’s lack of long-term vision on supercomputing does not compute
The exascale machine referenced in the budget will be expensive, but the price of strategic missteps is higher, say Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield