Israel makes English language study compulsory
Country hopes move will improve skills of local students and attract more overseas learners
Search
-
-
An MIT of the North? We’ve heard this before
How will renewed calls for a science and innovation hub in the north of England be any different from similar attempts that have failed in the past? asks G. R. Evans
-
Academics and the HE sector must continue to make the case for Erasmus+
Life-changing experiences will be beyond the grasp of too many students if the UK doesn’t negotiate a post-Brexit place in the EU’s student mobility scheme, says Tanja Bueltmann
-
Fears for future of private university after recruitment ‘pause’
Situation at Richmond raises questions about English sector regulation
-
What do British students think of studying in the US?
Extortionately high fees, zero alcohol and ‘quiet hours’ were a struggle to get used to for British students Anna Rees and Clodagh Flood when they arrived at a US university
-
Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, by Philip Goff
Book of the week: Jane O’Grady is impressed but not wholly convinced by an attempt to solve one of the most celebrated philosophical challenges
-
A Tale of Four Worlds: The Arab Region after the Uprisings, by Marina and David Ottaway
Madawi Al-Rasheed questions certain aspects of a survey of the events that convulsed the Arab world in 2011
-
Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East, edited by Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek
Lincoln Allison enjoys a mixed bag of contributions about the wider contexts of sport
-
Monster with many heads
A study on the well-being of UK academics concludes that universities are failing staff on almost every measure of workplace psychological risk
-
Books interview: Philipp Ther
The author of The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492 discusses tracing the rises and falls of empires in atlases, understanding the pain of mass displacements and the pleasure of simultaneously...
-
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools, by Steven Conn
John Anchor enjoys an account of where business schools have gone wrong
-
We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us, by Hadas Weiss
Danny Dorling suspects that class remains as meaningful as it always was
-
UK academia ‘increasingly unsafe’ working environment
Study finds levels of psychological safety falling well short of national benchmarks, and getting worse
-
James McCarthy, 1944-2019
Environmentalist praised by Al Gore as ‘eloquent’ and ‘passionate’ authority on oceanic climate change
-
Interview with Gary Kayye
The professor and media expert advises universities to value the low-tech practice of meditation, and to move far more quickly to embrace the high-tech way that their students prefer to learn