Building Africa’s science capacity requires broader, fairer collaboration
The EU and the AU’s new innovation agenda is promising, but implementation will be a challenge, says Jan Palmowski
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Student feedback should change forever after Covid-19
Switching towards peer-to-peer assessment makes sense for distance learning but a longer-term transformation would benefit students, says David Carless
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Carnage in the rear-view mirror
It’s been a bleak year as war brought more pain to a world still shaken by the pandemic and other pressures. Universities will be glad to put it behind them
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Open admissions blows away unfair barriers to university access
Denying that people have the potential to succeed before offering them any training contradicts what education is all about, says Elisa Stephens
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Iranian students are protesting like never before, but academics are wary
Iranian academia was previously going through a phase of chronic depression in terms of socio-political activism, says Roohola Ramezani
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Could the coronavirus force positive change in higher education?
We need to build on the speed and enthusiasm with which academics have embraced online teaching, argue Dawn Lerman and Falguni Sen
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Science's future is an interversity challenge
A truly global scientific world will have a unified research effort focused in a single institution, says Peter Atkins. Universities have always been central to the furtherance of fundamental science...
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Only about 20 per cent of school-leavers need to go to university
Massification, metrics and consumerism have eroded what was distinctive about UK higher education, says Philip Langton
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Latin America University Rankings 2022: HE beyond the pandemic
The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic still pose challenges to higher education systems with structural inequalities, says Mónica Marquina
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Twitter must do more to help academics fight misinformation
Sector-wide guidelines on sharing and discussing research online would also be very useful, says Laura Hassink
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Keir Starmer’s trip to his alma mater reflects universities’ regional clout
But institutions will contribute much more to both their localities and their planet if they collaborate more, says Simone Buitendijk
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Agent of change
John Bull is riveted as David Hare maps out the tense, ambiguous territory between political expediency and personal integrity
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If machines do the writing, students will stop doing the thinking
AI is close to being able to write students’ essays for them. But that will not help them understand why they think what they think, says Jane Rosenzweig
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It is time to stop talking about digital education
Technology will never be properly integrated into teaching if it is seen as separate from the physical classroom, says David Puttnam
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All fired up to meet the challenges of tomorrow
A visit to Africa has left Bill Rammell feeling inspired at the continent's commitment to spreading knowledge For almost a decade our Government has focused relentlessly on education. When you get...