Talking leadership: Teresa Woodruff on steering a university back to ‘safe harbour’
The interim president of Michigan State University shares her approach to healing the campus community after a deadly shooting and sexual misconduct crises
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Talking leadership: Ilkka Niemelä on attracting international talent
The president of Aalto University talks about leading a nationwide flexible learning effort, and why he’s been standing up for an ‘international Finland’
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Have universities got their fingers on the pulse of digital health?
Innovations such as wearable tech and mobile apps are expected to revolutionise healthcare and generate fortunes. But which researchers and institutions are taking their 10,000 steps, and what should...
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Is it time for Ukraine’s exiled academics to return?
Two years on from Russia’s invasion, displaced institutions are still teaching in temporary premises and online, while many researchers work abroad. But with a host of urgent quality problems to...
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World University Rankings 2024: a broader look at research quality
Hong Kong and the Netherlands lead new THE metrics measuring research strength, excellence and influence
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The week in higher education – 29 February 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Teaching at AI-focused university adapts as advances are made
Classes at world’s first postgraduate AI institution can pivot mid-course to explore breakthroughs, says MBZUAI acting provost
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Will a new president end Mexico’s stand-off over university policy?
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López-Obrador has expanded university access but is accused of ideological attacks on institutions, overly zealous corruption clampdowns and a misguided power grab...
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What’s in a name? The new partisan battlefront in college sector
Animated by both left and right, operations’ right to label themselves ‘university’ or ‘college’ amplify a regulatory danger for US higher education
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Lancaster objects to ‘very confusing’ Uclan name change plan
University wants to drop ‘Central’ and become ‘The University of Lancashire’, as existing location description has ‘little or no current relevance or meaning’
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Closure of Gettysburg Review signals start of shake-up at college
Pennsylvanian liberal arts school planning to reduce, and possibly eliminate, adjunct and visiting assistant professor positions, faculty fear
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University leaders can learn from military minds
Academia and the armed forces may seem worlds apart, but officer training has valuable lessons for university managers, says former Indian army veteran-turned-professor Vikas Rai Bhatnagar
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A merged Adelaide university would be out of step with accord reforms
Reducing the number of universities in South Australia would fly in the face of the Universities Accord’s call for more differentiation, says Warren Bebbington